Mitchell v. Espinosa’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Radke v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (1959), Simson v. Langholf (1956)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 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 Ohio Oil Co. v. Wyoming Agency · Skelly Oil Company v. Johnson · Calvat v. Juhan · Percifield v. Rosa · Washburn v. Gregory Co.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except one half of oil right reserved by [grantor].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear that before a valid tax deed can be issued by a county treasurer for nonpayment of taxes there must have been a valid assessment of the property subject ing it to the payment of taxes followed by a default in the payment thereof.... Where a separate and distinct estate consisting of mines, minerals and quarries ... is created by reservation thereof, a sufficient description of this property for assessment purposes requires specific reference to the severed estate. Thus, there must be in the assessment a sufficient description of the estate in oil, such as 'all oil and gas beneath and underlying the specific ... land. A valid assessment is a prerequisite to the issuance of a valid treasurer's deed. (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The only purpose of the law in requiring the publication of notice that application has been made for the issuance of a treasurer's deed ... is to protect the interest of the fee-title owner and afford him an opportunity for redemption....”
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.