Nelson v. Naumowicz’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1991
20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 101 N.J. Eq. 227 - Absecon Land Co. v. Keernes · 98 N.J. Eq. 209 - Rodgers v. Cressman · 128 N.J. Eq. 385 - Forster v. Davenport · Harrington Co. v. Jones · 106 N.J. Eq. 280 - Harrington Co. v. Jones
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Mrs. Naumowicz knew that her tax sale certificate did not carry the. incidents of ownership and that she should proceed by hill to foreclose the owner’s right of redemption. So thoroughly did she understand that legal fact that she engaged an attorney to institute proceedings and paid him a retainer to that end; but she professes not to know what happened to the suit. Nevertheless she went on to make disbursements, many of them for capital improvements for which she would not have been awarded reimbursement even had she been in lawful possession. It is the essence of appellant’s argument under her second point that she assumed, and was justified in assuming, from the attitude of the owner that the latter had abandoned the premises; but assuming this to be the fact, such an abandonment gave no rights to the appellant. Under the tax act, R. S. 54:5-54, N. J. S. A., the owner had the right to redeem within two years of the date of sale or at any time thereafter until the right to redeem had been cut off by the statutory foreclosure.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morvay v. Gressman“the statute did not confer a right of possession upon the individual holder of a tax sale certificate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.