Kennedy v. Mossafa’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Jones v. Flowers (2006), Oneida Indian Nation v. Madison County (2011)
10 federal appellate ·
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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the enforcing officer is in no different position than if an initial examination of the [tax] roll had yielded no address. Generally, when the notice is returned as undeliverable, the tax district should conduct a reasonable search of the public record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While to an owner who has not abandoned his or her property, learning of its foreclosure is distressing — particularly when the tax due constitute^] a minuscule percentage of the market value of the property — the owner’s interest must be balanced against the State’s interest in collecting delinquent taxes, taking into account the status and conduct of the owner....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he public record does not consist solely of the [county] tax roll. To the contrary, RPTL 1125 specifically refers to the records of the surrogate's office. In fact, the statute contemplates that the enforcing officer may generally charge . . . for any reasonable search of the public record.”
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.