Edwards v. Lodge’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1985
16 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 Deaner v. Gwaltney · Townsend v. Tallant · Giller v. Fouke
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There shall be published once weekly for two weeks between the second Monday in May and the second Monday in June, in each yeár, in any county publication qualified by law, a notice to the effect that the delinquent lands, tracts, lots or parts of lots so entered in said delinquent land book will be sold, or so much thereof as is necessary to pay the taxes, penalties and costs due thereon, by the County Collector, at the court house in said county (or district) on the second Monday in June next, unless the taxes, penalties, and costs be paid before that time, and that the sale will be continued from day to day, until the said tracts, lots and parts of lots be sold. Said notice of sale of delinquent real estate for taxes shall occupy a space of not more than six inches double column in each publication, provided, however, that the rate for the insertion of this legal notice shall not exceed the commercial rate in the publication in which the notice appears, and this rate shall not be affected by any reduction provided otherwise in this Act. Said notice shall be in substance as follows: , . ■ ■; ■ • " “‘NOTICE OF DELINQUENT TAX SALE" “ ‘The lands and. lots and parts of lots returned delinquent ’in .County for the year 19., together with the taxes and penalties charged thereon agreeable to law, are contained and described in a list or record on file in the office of the Clerk of the County Court; and notice is hereby given to all parties in interest that said several- tracts, l”
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.