Session v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 4th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · KPMG Peat Marwick v. Harrison County Housing Finance Corp. · Ricks v. Grubbs · Hejl v. Wirth · Rigo Manufacturing Company v. Thomas
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an action relating to the title to property may not be maintained against the purchaser of the property at a tax sale unless the action is commenced: (1) before the first anniversary of the date that the deed executed to the purchaser at the tax sale is filed of record; or (2) before the second anniversary of the date that the deed executed to the purchaser is filed of record, if on the date that the suit to collect the delinquent tax was filed the property was: (A) the residence homestead of the owner; or (B) land appraised or eligible to be appraised under Subchapter C or D, Chapter 23. (b) If a person other than the purchaser at the tax sale or the person’s successor in interest pays taxes on the property during the applicable limitations period and until the commencement of an action challenging the validity of the tax sale and that person was not served citation in the suit to foreclose the tax lien, that limitations period does not apply to that person. (c)When actions are barred by this section, the purchaser at the tax sale or the purchaser’s successor in interest has full title to the property, precluding all other claims.”
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.