Rannels v. Rowe’s Empirical Analysis
145 F. 296 · 1906
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1934
6 federal appellate ·
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 Davis v. Gray · Schulenberg v. Harriman · Alexander Finlay v. William King's Lessee · Nicoll v. . the New-York and Erie Railroad Co. · Ruch v. Rock Island
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That whenever any person having title to, or being the owner of, any lands which have been or may be stricken off to the state, or forfeited for nonpayr mént of taxes, shall donate or subscribe the same in aid of the construction of any railroad, and the same shall be reported, to the auditor of public accounts, as provided in section two hereof, the auditor shall grant his certificate, as in case of redemption, and thereupon all taxes and claims of the state on account of nonpayment of taxes, on each, tract of land so subscribed or donated, shall be remitted and discharged: Provided, that a lien shall exist in favor of the state for the taxes hei-eby remitted, which may be enforced, and said taxes collected according to law, if such railroad shall not be completed through the county in which, or nearest to which, such lands are selected, within five years from the date of such subscription or donation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Subject only to tlie condition that if said railroad be not built and completed within three years from date hereof said lands shall revert to the estate of Edmond McGehee, deceased.””
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.