Alexander v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1967
14 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 Rogers v. Harris · Grimes v. Carter · James v. Coleman · Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. v. Bettis · Richard v. Richard
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In these cases we held in effect that where the taxpayer had made good-faith effort to ascertain and pay all taxes due or delinquent, and where misinformation was received and justifiably relied upon and by reason thereof and without fault of the taxpayer the tax delinquency was permitted to continue and result in final tax sale, that the taxpayer, upon clear proof, was entitled to relief against the tax deeds upon equitable considerations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Le Gate v. Beck
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.