Parsons v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 14 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[T]he purchaser at a tax sale buys strictly under the rule of caveat emptor” In the absence of any statutory provision to the contrary, there is no warranty on the part of the state, or other public body making the sale and if the purchaser’s title proves defective for want of compliance with the law in proceedings leading up to the sale or in the conduct of the sale, he' has no affirmative remedy other than that which' is provided by statute.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 99 So. 3d 1154 - Rebuild America, Inc. v. Johnson · 179 So. 3d 1026 - James D. Hobson, Jr. v. Chase Home Finance, L.L.C.

2. ““The rule that, where an instrument purporting to be a deed and which has no grantee named therein, in esse, a person in being, or corporation, is void, is so well-established in Mississippi that it is no longer doubtful. . . . “ ‘The rule that a deed which names as grantee a fictitious person is void is based upon the physical nonexistence of the grantee named, and care must be taken to distinguish between a deed to a fictitious person who has no existence and to a person in exist ence who is described by a fictitious or assumed name. If a living or legal person is identifiable as the grantee named in the deed, the deed is valid * * In other words, if a living or legal person is intended as the grantee and identifiable, the deed is valid however he may be named in the deed.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 342 F. Supp. 1314 - Grynberg v. Amerada Hess Corporation