Odom v. Averett’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably Ex Parte Liberty Nat. Life Ins. Co. (2002), Ellis v. Stickney (1949)
64 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 Hooper v. Bankhead & Bankhead · Tensaw Land & Timber Co. v. Rivers · Puckett v. Puckett · Moorer v. Malone · Rucker v. Jackson
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No action for the recovery of real estate sold for * * * taxes shall lie unless the same is brought within three years from the date when the purchaser became entitled to demand a deed therefor; * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[Section] 3107 of the Code of 1923, which was in force at the time the property was sold for taxes and bought in by the State, expressly provided that the statute of limitations of three earn the recovery of lands sold for the payment of taxes did not apply to void tax sales. But this provision excepting void tax sales from the operation of the statute was omitted in the Revenue Act of 1935. [Citations omitted.] [The statute] which was in effect at the time of the filing of this suit . . . is the statute which has application to the instant case. Under our decisions, statutes of limitations affect the remedy and unless the act creating the limitation expressly shows a contrary intention, the statute of limitations existing at the time of trial applies."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The above-quoted statute, which is generally referred to as ‘the short statute of limitations,’ has application when a party comes into equity to quiet title as well as in ejectment suits. Long v. Boast, 153 Ala. 428 , 44 So. 955 . It has application to cases where the land is purchased from the State as well as to instances where the purchase is made from the tax collector. Doe ex dem. Evers v. Matthews, 192 Ala. 181 , 68 So. 182 ; Howard v., Tollett, 202 Ala. 11 , 79 So. 309 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanna v. Ferrier
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.