Westerheide v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2008
17 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 United States v. Oregon Lumber Co. · Saranac Land Timber Company v. James a Roberts · Clark v. Duncanson · Lind v. Stubblefield · Conners v. City of Lowell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. If no person shall redeem any land on which the tax lien has been sold within two (2) years, at any time after the expiration, thereafter and on production of the certificate of purchase, the county treasurer of the county in which the sale of such land took place shall execute to the purchaser, or the heirs or assigns of the purchaser, a deed for land remaining unredeemed. The deed shall vest in the grantee an absolute estate in fee simple in the lands, subject however, to all claims which the state may have on the lands for taxes or other liens or encumbrances and shall extinguish the rights of any mortgagee of record of the lands to whom notice was sent as provided for by law. However, before any holder of a certificate of purchase issued at any tax sale of real estate shall be entitled to a deed as provided in this section, the holder of a certificate of purchase shall cause a written notice signed by such holder to be served, either by process server, by the sheriff or by restricted certified mail with return receipt requested, upon the owner of the land if the owner is within the state, upon the person in possession of the land, if the same be occupied, and upon all mortgagees and lienholders of record of the land, which notice shall recite the sale of the lands, specifying the date of such sale and notifying such person that unless redemption is made from such sale within sixty (60) days after the date of the service of such notice, a tax deed will be demanded and w”
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.