Henderson v. Langley’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1966
15 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 Lind v. Stubblefield · Cullen v. Western Mortgage & Warranty Title Co. · Johnson v. Taylor · Harris v. Defenbaugh · Horsky v. McKennan
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.
““ * * * The issue of the validity of the tax deed was thus squarely raised and the burden was upon the defendant to prove the validity of said deed to show the interest that said defendant had acquired. If the defendant, in offering the tax deed in evidence, . had submitted proof of notice as required by section 12759, O.S.1931, the tax deed would then have been evidence, prima facie, of a valid tax sale.. Such notice must be proved aliunde the six presumptive facts enumerated in section 12760, O.S.1951. In the absence of such proof, said tax deed was not admissible in evidence for the purpose of showing, title, in defendant over the objection of plaintiff. Proof of notice required by section 12759, O.S.1931, supra, was jurisdictional and such notice. is not within- the matters specifically named in section 12760, O.S.19.31. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fletcher v. Twyford““Notice as required by 68 O.S.1951, § 451, must be proved aliunde the six presumptive facts enumerated- in 68 O.S.1951 § 452. Proof of such notice is jurisdictional and such notice is not within the matters specifically named in 68 O.S.1951 § 452. “A certificate tax deed alone is not evidence of title and one desiring to avail himself of the effect of a tax deed as evidence of title should introduce in evidence the notice required by 68 O.S.1951 § 451.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thein v. Eversole““Section 12760, O.S.1931, does not provide that a tax deed shall be presumptive evidence of the fact that the notice required by section 12759 O.S. 1931 (68 O.S.1951, section 451), was served on the landowner and this court cannot extend the intendment of said section 12760, so as to make a tax deed prima facie evidence of additional facts not enumerated therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thein v. Eversole
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.