Stevenson v. Henkle’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1941
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Inhabitants of Westhampton v. Searle · O'Neal v. Virginia & Maryland Bridge Co. · Thomas v. Jones · Virginia Coal Co. v. Thomas · Thorndike v. Inhabitants of Camden
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The provision in section 601 of the Code, that ‘the right or title to such estate shall stand vested in the grantee in such deed as if, was vested in the party assessed with the taxes or levies on account whereof the sale was made,’ refers to the character of the title that shall be vested in the grantee in such deed, whether it be a fee simple or otherwise. It has no reference to liens, and does not mean, as contended, that the purchaser takes the land subject to the liens resting thereon at the time the taxes are assessed.””
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.