Pinkert v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . Appellant insists that when appellee’s father obtained his deed from the State in 1937 he was, in effect, redeeming the land from a forfeiture for the non-payment of taxes; that a purchase of tax-forfeited land from the State by one who owned the land at the time of its forfeiture amounts to a redemption. This would be true in some circumstances, such as where there is a remainderman, but that situation does not exist here. Moreover, the father of the appellee was not the only purchaser from the State; appellee’s mother was also a grantee, the result being an estate by the entirety. Prior to the purchase from the State, the mother had owned no interest in the land, but she acquired an interest in the 1937 deed from the State. Through the death of her husband, her estate by the entirety ripened into sole ownership, subject, of course, to any intervening divestiture.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Herford v. Scales