James v. Zantzinger’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2005
24 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 Leigh v. Green · Gathwright v. Mayor of Baltimore · Stewart v. Wheatley
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, in this case appellant was not under any legal or equitable duty to notify any persons who were not shown by the land records to have any interest in the property purchased at the tax sale. Code 1951, art. 81, sec. 101. ... More than a year and a half after the tax sale, and more than six months after the institution of the suit to foreclose the right of redemption, Zantzinger received a deed for the property from Jacoby [the record owner], but he failed to record it. More than a year elapsed between the time of the institution of the suit and the final decree vesting absolute and indefeasible title in the [tax sale] purchaser. And yet Zantzinger took no action until nearly four months after the decree was entered. ... Courts of equity do not restore opportunities which have been permitted to pass by reason of the neglect of those to whom the opportunities were once presented. This is especially true in this case, since the Legislature has prescribed how and when a purchaser may obtain an absolute and indefeasible title to property which he has purchased at a tax sale.... It is the mandate of the Legislature that the decree foreclosing the right of redemption is final and conclusive and must not be set aside except for lack of jurisdiction or for fraud.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lippert v. Jung“the statutory requirements as to notice required to terminate the taxpayer's right to redeem from a tax sale,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Hardisty“are mandatory and must be strictly followed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Hardisty
How this case has been treated — in progress
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