Murphy v. Seward’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1968
20 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 Pool v. Ellis
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While section 4332, Code of 1906 (section 6966, Hemingway’s Code), provides that a tax collector’s conveyance ‘shall vest in the purchaser a perfect title to the land sold for taxes, subject to the right of redemption,’ this conveyance is not delivered to the purchaser until the expiration of the period of redemption, and during the interim the purchaser has none of the rights of true ownership. He has no right to the possession and enjoyment of the estate, and, if he enters upon the land without the consent of the delinquent owner, he is a trespasser.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carraway v. Lockard““Until tlie lapse of the time in which the owner is permitted to redeem, the title of the purchaser is inchoate, and does not carry with it the right to the possession of the land as against the owner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carraway v. Lockard
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.