180 W. Va. 194 - Anderson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2014
6 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 Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams · 180 W. Va. 228 - Lilly v. Duke · 152 W. Va. 169 - Work v. Rogerson · 157 W. Va. 381 - Thaxton v. Beard · Benoit v. Panthaky
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Implicit in this case is the issue of whether suits to set aside delinquent land tax deeds can be time barred. We note that there do not appear to be many cases decided subsequent to Mennonite that discuss this issue. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Benoit v. Panthaky, 780 F.2d 336 (3d Cir.1985), assumed without deciding that laches might apply, but held under the facts of the ease that it was not applicable. A similar conclusion was reached by the Indiana Court of Appeals in Fields v. Evans, 484 N.E.2d 36 (Ind.App.1985). We have utilized the doctrine of laches or equitable estoppel to bar relief in prior land tax cases. See, e.g., Thaxton v.Beard, 157 W.Va. 381 , 201 S.E.2d 298 (1973) (estoppel applied in case of errone ous assessment); Work v. Rogerson, 152 W.Va. 169, 160 S.E.2d 159 (1968) (laches in delinquent tax deed). This suit was filed only eight months after delivery of the deputy commissioner’s deed. There was no intervening disposition of the property by Mr. Jackson nor any capital improvements thereon. Furthermore, the record does not reveal any inequitable conduct by the plaintiff that would operate as a bar. We, therefore, conclude that the suit was timely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There are certain constitutional due process requirements for notice of a tax sale of real property. Where a party having an interest in the property can reasonably be identified from public records or otherwise, due process requires that such party be provided notice by mail or other means as certain to ensure actual notice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mason v. Smith
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