Sanders v. Plant’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1965
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Towell v. Etter · Crill v. Hudson · Mobbs v. Burrow · Plant v. Sanders · Bracken v. Henson
Most-quoted passages
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““The chancellor held that in as much as the intervenor’s grantor had purchased all these lands from the state and had received the deed of the State Land Commissioner therefor, and, in as much also as the former opinion upheld the sale of the Northeast Quarter, section 20, containing 58.87 acres, and the sale of the Northwest Quarter of that section, containing 98.30 acres, the sale thereof carried the title to the 60 acres of accretions to these two fractional quarter sections. Upon that finding the court awarded the writ of assistance as prayed for and from that decree is this appeal. “For the affirmance of this decree appellee cites and relies upon the case of Towell v. Etter, 69 Ark. 34 , 59 S.W. 1096 , 63 S.W. 53 , and later cases which have approved and followed that case. In this Towell case it was held, to quote a headnote, that ‘A purchase at commissioner’s sale for delinquent levee taxes of a tract of land described as the southwest quarter of a certain section, containing 151 acres, will carry title to 35 acres of land which had previously been added to such land by accretion.’ The sale in that case was for delinquent levee taxes but the same rule was applied in the case of Crill v. Hudson, 71 Ark. 390 , 74 S.W. 299 where the sale had been made for the non-payment of the general taxes. “Apparently and prima facie it woufd appear that since appellee had acquired title to the Northeast Quarter and the Northwest Quarter of Section 20, he had also acquired title to the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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