Reynolds v. Plants’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 1987
20 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 Bender v. Bean · Wilkins v. Maggard · Beloate v. State Ex Rel. Attorney General · Carpenter v. Minter · Harris v. Harris
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“34-1420. Affidavit in action for recovery of land held under tax title — Tender of taxes and value of improvements. The person or persons, . . . claiming any such land as mentioned in the first section [§ 34-1419] of this act, shall, before the issuing of any writ, file in the office of the clerk of the proper court, an affidavit, setting forth that such claimant hath tendered to the purchaser or purchasers thereof,. . . the full amount of all taxes and costs first paid on account of said lands, with interest on the same, . . . from the time said costs and taxes were paid, and also the full value of all improvements of whatever kind and description, made on said lands, by the purchaser or purchasers, . . . and that the same hath been refused. 34-1421. Failure to file affidavit — Dismissal of action — Costs. If any suit or action shall be brought in any court of record in this state against any such purchaser or purchasers, . . . holding any lands, as specified in the first section [§ 34-1419] of this act, and it shall appear to the satisfaction of such court, that no affidavit, as required in the preceding section of this act, was filed previous to the commencement thereof, it shall be the duty of such court to dismiss said suit or action, at the cost of the plaintiff or plaintiffs.”
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.