Willard v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1944
11 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 Peters v. Banta · Busch v. Huston · Laton v. Balcom · Shannon v. Hay · Rowe v. Peabody
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that one in possession of land, under covenant to pay taxes, can not permit the land to be sold, and acquire title against the rightful owner by becoming the purchaser at a tax sale. . . . “This doctrine has been extended to include agents and attorneys, tenants in common, tenants . for life, mortgagors, and other lienholders.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.