Weber v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.2d 1004 · 1946
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2004
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Meadows v. United States · United States v. 150.29 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Milwaukee County · United States v. Certain Lands · 27 Cal. App. 2d 658 - Ducey v. Dambacher · Empie v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time of the purported tax sale on July 14, 1942, did the State of California have any interest in said land to sell? We think not. From the time of the sale to the State of California on the 25th day of June, 1937, the owners had five years to redeem. The legal title remained in the appellees as taxpayers subject to a lien in favor of the State. In effect ‘it’ was ‘not a sale but * * * merely a book transaction to facilitate the adjustment of accounts between the tax collector and the auditor.’ Ducey v. Dambacher, 27 Cal.App.2d 658, 661 , 81 P.2d 597 . On April 22, 1942, the date of the judgment awarding immediate possession and delivery of the land to the Government, the period of redemption had not run. The legal title to said land, on said date, passed from appellees to the Government and the lien held by the State of California was, by operation of law, lifted from the land and impressed upon the fund received from the Government in payment therefor. The Tax Collector of the City and County of San Francisco, on July H, 1912, in professing to sell the land to appellant, performed an idle act. The State of California at the time had no claim or lien upon the land whatsoever. It had nothing to sell when appellant attempted to buy; hence, he bought nothing. He argues that the sale to the Government did not extend the period of redemption. Quite true, but it left nothing to which a redemption period could relate or become effective. The entire picture was changed by the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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