Taylor v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 26 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The purchaser at a valid tax resale procures a title to the real estate from the government which is free and clear from any former right of any former owner of the real estate.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hefner v. Cravens · McNaughton v. Beattie

2. ““A valid tax title is a new title— ‘an independent grant from the sovereignty, which bars all other titles or equities, whether of record or otherwise.’ Windom v. Schuppel, 39 Minn. 35 , 38 N.W. 757 . ‘It cuts off all interests acquired by purchasers at tax sales . . . prior to that upon which the tax deed is based.’ Emmons County v. Bennett, 9 N. D. 131 , 81 N. W. 22 . “ ‘If the tax deed is valid, then, from the time of its delivery, it clothes the purchaser, not merely with the title of the person who had been assessed for the taxes, and had neglected to pay them, but with a new and complete title in the land, under an independent grant from the sovereign authority, which bars or extinguishes all prior titles and incumbrances of private persons, and all equities arising out of them.’ Heffner v. Northwestern Mut Life Ins. Co., 123 U.S. 747, 751 , 31 L.Ed. 309, 311 , 8 Sup. Ct. Rep. 337, 338. “ ‘A tax title, from its very nature, has nothing to do with the previous chain of title; does not in any way connect itself with it. It is a breaking up of all previous titles. The party holding such title, in proving it, goes no further than his tax deed; the former title can be of no service to him, nor can it prejudice him. ... In an ordinary case, it matters not how many different interests may be connected with the title, what may be the particular interest of the party in whose name the property may be listed for taxation; it may be a mere equitable right; if the land be regularly”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. August · Kasner v. Wilson

3. ““The title taken by Creek county under this resale deed was a virgin title comparable to a patent from the government, unaffected either for good or ill by Anything pertaining to the former chain of title.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McNaughton v. Beattie