Cartwright v. McFadden’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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

1. ““The court below held that the tax deed is void upon its face; and this holding was based upon the ground that the deed itself shows upon its face that the property which it purported to convey is composed of several separate and distinct tracts of land, and that they were all sold together in bulk and not separately for the taxes severally due upon each of them. Now it is true that the tax deed does show upon its face that all the lots which it purports to convey were sold together and in bulk, and if it also shows that these lots are separate and distinct tracts of land, not contiguous to each other, then of course the tax deed is void upon it’s face, (Hall’s Heirs v. Dodge, 18 Kan. 277 .) But does the tax deed show this? We think not. We think that it furnishes some evidence to this effect, but still that the evidence is not complete or sufficient. The property being divided into lots, and these lots not being numbered consecutively by units, we think furnishes some evidence that the lots are not contiguous; but this evidence we think is not conclusive, or even satisfactory, of the fact. The lots might very well all be in one body notwithstanding this evidence. This kind of evidence might sometimes, along with other circumstances, furnish the foundation for a finding that the lots are not contiguous; but alone, and against the statutory presumptions in favor of the regularity and validity of the tax deed, and of all the prior proceedings, it cannot sufficiently prove any s”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cross v. Herman