Keller v. Hawk’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 1962 · most notably Sandlin v. Barker (1923), Parks v. Lyons (1938)
34 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 Redfield v. Parks · Wofford v. McKinna · Lowenstein v. Sexton · Mason v. Crowder · Thaw v. Falls
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe that the legislature did not intend that time should breathe life and force into an instrument from the face of which it could be seen that it was absolutely void. The law was intended to protect purchasers at tax sales and their grantees from hidden defects in the proceedings, and not from those which the tax deed shows upon its face, and which under the law, persons dealing with the title are bound to know.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * The tax certificate, under the law, does not pass title to the land sold. It is a written certification by the county treasurer of the facts regarding the sale of real estate for taxes, and is the legal evidence upon which the holder thereof is, at the proper time, entitled to a deed, or the redemption money. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is true that there are some cases holding that statutes of limitations will run against a void deed, but the weight of authority is against that doctrine and with the latter line of authorities are the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sitton v. Hernstadt
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.