Cook v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1990
10 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 Kivlen v. Horvath · Recker v. Dupuy · Levenberg v. Shanks · Jones v. Curran · Cordill v. Quaker Realty 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It has been frequently held that notice of delinquency and of intention to sell is jurisdictional in its nature, and might be assimilated to a citation in a suit to obtain judgment; and that a tax sale made without such notice, given as required by the organic law of the state, is so radically and fundamentally defective that it cannot be validated, cured or perfected by monition proceedings. Recker v. Dupuy, 161 La. 392 , 108 So. 782 ; McCrory v. Bradford, 130 La. 212 , 57 So. 892 and cases therein cited; In re Interstate Land Co., 118 La. 587 , 43 So. 173 ; Jones v. Curran, 156 La. 1055 , 101 So. 415 ; [ Tensas Delta] Land Co. v. Sholars, 105 La. 357 , 29 So. 908 ; Johnson v. Martinez, 48 La.Ann. 52 , 18 So. 909 ; Thibodaux v. Keller, 29 La.Ann. 508 ; Fix v. Dierker, 30 La.Ann. 175 ; Kearns v. Collins, 40 La. Ann. 453 , 4 So. 498 ; Cordill v. Quaker Realty Co., 130 La. 933 , 58 So. 819 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"If the tax debtor continues in the actual possession of the property sold at tax sale, the possession is a continuous assertion of his title and protest against the sale; the pre-emption does not accrue and the tax title cannot be perfected."”
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.