Close v. Rowan’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 1981 · most notably Tillery v. Fuller (1938), Yuges Realty, Ltd. v. Jefferson Parish Developers, Inc. (1944)
45 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 Ashley Co. v. Bradford · Pierson v. Castell Land & Harbor Co. · Mecom v. Graves · Guillory v. Elms · Baldwin Lumber Co. v. Dalferes
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No sale of property for taxes shall be set aside for any cause except on proof of payment of the taxes for which the property was sold prior to the date of the sale, unless the proceeding to annul is instituted within six months from service of notice of sale, which notice shall not be served until the time of redemption shall have expired and within five years from the date of the recordation of the tax deed, if no notice is given."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Moresi““ ‘Plaintiffs or, so far as appears, those through whom they hold, have not had actual possession of the property since the tax sale.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thurmon v. Hogg
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.