Meshell v. Bauer’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably Stevens v. Johnson (1956), Thurmon v. Hogg (1954)
30 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 Thomas Bullis v. Stricker Land Timber Co. · Bradley v. Burgis · Dyer v. Wilson · Fishel v. Stark
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * A tax sale, legally valid ab initio does not need the aid of this peremption at all. It is beyond attack and becomes indefeasible after the period of redemption (now three years) has expired.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘does not therein, nor in the petition, assail the efficacy of the tax deed to Bauer nor offer any re,ason why it should not be given the force and effect that instruments of that character,, under the Constitution and Laws of this State, are entitled. In the absence of direct attack upon the tax deed, we assume tluat no valid grownd exists therefor.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thurmon v. Hogg
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.