McCullough v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2021
7 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 Elerick v. Reed · Adams v. State Ex Rel. Mothersead · Taylor v. Trow · Prowant v. Smith
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the doctrine of relation back the correction deed, in contemplation of law, is the original deed, the defective first deed being a mere scrap of paper. ... It is thus apparent that the doctrine of relation back as applied to correction tax deeds has been adopted and long adhered to by this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foley v. Worthington
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.