Erp v. Tillman’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 1967 · most notably Callahan v. Giles (1941), Brooks v. Slaughter (1920)
49 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.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A year was deemed sufficient time in which to allow awards to be put to the test previously applied at the instance of intending purchasers and lessees, and after which only the state could interfere. This seems to make it sufficiently evident that this is not an ordinary statute of limitation. The award in such a contest as this constitutes the title of the purchaser which may be produced in evidence without special pleading, and when it is produced and shown to have stood for a year this statute, of which the court must take notice, makes it conclusive evidence of a sale valid against every one but the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Houston v. Koonce
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.