Pollak v. Milam’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1963 · most notably Gunter v. Townsend (1918), Morris v. Waldrop (1925)
26 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 Roman v. Lentz · Lodge v. Wilkerson · Oliver v. Robinson · Smith v. Cox · Dane v. Glennon
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the lands here were assessed to owner unknown, that fact ’does not affect the essential prerequisite to jurisdiction which section 4046 of the Code of 1896 (now section 2268 of the Code of 1907) requires as a foundation upon which all decrees of sale of lands for taxes shall rest. Lodge v. Wilkerson, 174 Ala. 133 [ 56 South. 994 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the sale of lands for taxes, great strictness is required, and every provision of the statute must be punctiliously pursued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.