Wattles v. Plotts’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2017
24 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 22 N.J. Eq. 531 - Haughwout & Pomeroy v. Murphy · Bron v. Weintraub · 230 N.J. Super. 254 - Wattles v. Plotts · 191 N.J. Super. 362 - Walter v. Sands · State v. Bethune
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person, however, shall be admitted as a party to such action, nor shall he have the right to redeem the lands from the tax sale whenever it shall appear that he has acquired such interest in the lands for a nominal consideration after the filing of the complaint. [N.J.S.A. 54:5-89.1.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o one disputes the right of holders of interests in property to convey them to third persons if they wish”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“examine the dockets ... to ascertain the names and addresses of the defendants in the cause from whom they then indiscriminately solicit conveyances of title, or other interests in the lands under foreclosure, always for a nominal consideration, iusually $25.00 or $50.00, which they characterize as a “courtesy consideration” in dealing with those they solicit # * * * The scheme of these intermeddlers is simple. They permit the purchaser of the tax sale certificate to invest his capital; hold the lien for the statutory period, engage counsel to examine the title, make inquiry as to the whereabouts of the defendants, their heirs, devisees, and personal representatives, prosecute the case up to the point of completion, and upon being satisfied at that time that the defendants do not intend to redeem, such intermeddlers offer the defendants a nominal sum for a deed and they thereupon step into the shoes of the purchaser of the lien. At that stage they find the defendants very amenable to any suggestion that they might make because they have nothing to lose — the defendants have already determined to abandon their interests. [Statement Accompanying Sen. No. 291, L. 1967, c. 149 (emphasis added).]”
2 later decisions 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.