Mecom v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably Tillery v. Fuller (1938), Smith v. Chappell (1933)
42 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 Board of Com'rs v. Concordia Land & Timber Co. · Guillory v. Elms · Lindquist v. Maurepas Land & Lumber Co. · Pharr v. Morgan's L. & T. R. & S. S. Co. · Louisiana Land Co. v. Blakewood
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it be assumed that the land in contest was actually sold by the tax collector, the fact that it was not assessed for the taxes for which it was sold would make the sale an absolute nullity, not protected by the prescription of three years. Guillory v. Elms, 126 La. 560 , 52 South. 767 ; Morton v. Xeter Realty Co., 129 La. 775 , 56 South. 883 ; Board of Commissioners v. Concordia Land & Timber Co., 141 La. 247 , 74 South. 921 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is well settled that a sale made for taxes, a part of which were previously paid, no matter by whom, is absolutely null and is not protected by the prescription of three years.” Citing several decisions on the subject.”
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.