Spencer v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “is simply a payment of taxes by the purchasing co-parcener and his right in the land is not enhanced except to secure the payment of the amount, with interest, thus expended by him for taxes for the other co-parceners.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Albury v. Gordon · Johnson v. Johnson

2. “When one of several co-owners of property acquires the tax title thereto, his purchase amounts merely to a payment of taxes or a redemption from the sale, and gives him no rights against his associates except insofar as they may fail or refuse to contribute to all expenditures so made. And this rule prevails whether the tax deed was procured to be executed directly to the tenant or to a third person through whom he claims as grantee for it is generally agreed that when the common property has been sold for taxes to a stranger, even though the time for redemption has expired, a tenant in common cannot by the purchase of such title assert it against his cotenant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 512 So. 2d 1150 - Adams v. Adams