Stone v. . Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1957
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That no sale of real estate shall be void because such real estate was charged in the name of any other than the rightful owner if such real estate be in other respects sufficiently described. But no sale of real property so listed in the name of the wrong person shall be held valid when the rightful one has listed the same and paid the taxes thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“by a sheriff's deed made pursuant to this chapter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Price v. . Slagle
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.