State v. Moak’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably Cockrell v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Company (1957), Goggins v. Leo (1993)
33 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 State v. Locke · 119 W. Va. 50 - Armstrong Products Corp. v. Martin
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[WJhen the property was acquired by the taxing units at the judicial sale ..., under an application of the general doctrine of merger it must be held that the liens of the bodies politic which were parties to the suit were merged into the title they acquired. [[Image here]] The conclusion follows that the liens for taxes held by the State and the County for 1939 through 1941 were, as a matter of law, merged into the title acquired by the taxing units on October 7, 1941.”
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.