Owsley v. Matson’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Akley v. Bassett (1922), McGrail v. Fields (1949)
5 federal appellate · 46 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 Webber v. Clarke · Walsh v. Hill · Hicks v. Coleman · McDonald v. McCoy · Cavanaugh v. Jackson
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a redemption has been made thereof, while the party or his successor in interest was in undisturbed possession and all this is done in good faith, we see no reason why the same should not be held to operate as a payment and we think it is sufficient to bring the occupant within the terms of the statute which requires him to pay the taxes upon the property claimed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLear-Gary v. Scott
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.