Herbert v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2003
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 Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Kimball · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hudson · Mills v. Pitts · Barnett v. Squyres · Newman v. Phalen
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.
““None of these matters render void the judgment, the order of sale, nor the validity of the Sheriff’s deed, each of which was regular and valid on its face. They cannot therefore be urged in a collateral attack. The attack here made is admittedly a collateral attack on the tax sale, and the presumption is in favor of its validity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grindstaff v. Taylor
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.