17 Wash. App. 201 - Pierce County v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2009
3 federal appellate · 12 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 Dow v. State of Michigan · Slocum v. Peterson · 50 Wash. 2d 465 - Kupka v. Reid · Matthews v. Morrison · Owen v. Owen
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[FJailure to comply with statutory provisions relating to the content and manner of notice in proceedings to collect delinquent taxes leaves the court without jurisdiction over the tax foreclosure proceeding and renders void any foreclosure sale and tax deed issued pursuant thereto;”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in a manner reasonably calculated to inform the owner or owners of the foreclosure action”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[L]ack of notice to an owner `renders the sale and the tax deed void, or at least voidable, at the suit of the record owners or their grantee.'”
2 later decisions 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.