25 Wash. 2d 269 - Johnson v. Burgeson’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2009
6 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 Gustaveson v. Dwyer · Gustaveson v. Dwyer · McMillan v. City of Tacoma · Hanson v. Carr · City of Ballard v. Way
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issuance of a valid treasurer’s deed created a virgin title erasing all former interests in the land. ‘When the treasurer issued his tax deed in conformity with law, he initiated a new title to the lands so conveyed. The former title is wiped out and a fortiori former hens and charges on such lands are removed.’ ‘ “A tax title, from its very nature, has nothing to do with the previous chain of title; does not in any way connect itself with it. It is a breaking up of all previous titles.” ’ By a tax deed one acquires ‘a new, independent and paramount title to the property.’ Title by adverse possession vanishes when the treasurer issues his deed in accordance with law for unpaid taxes. ‘The title by adverse possession thus disclosed against the original owner of the land disappeared when the land was sold for taxes under which the purchaser obtained the land free from the appellee’s claim thereto.’ ‘Clearly adverse possession prior to the creation of a tax title lends not the least support to the title claimed thereafter.’ In order to start anew a prescriptive title, the Lowrys must have proven an adverse possession commencing with the 29th day of January 1945, the date on which the property was conveyed by Chaffee County to Solomon Grodal.” [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lippert v. Jung
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