Singley v. Dempsey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Section 295, Title 51, supra, applies to proceedings in equity as well as in ejectment cases; it applies to void tax sales as well as to valid sales; it applies when the land is purchased from the State as well as in instances where the purchase is made from the tax collector. Odom v. Averett, 248 Ala. 289 , 27 So.2d 479 . * * * * * * * * the date on which the purchaser is entitled to demand a deed is not alone determinative of the time when the statute begins to run. It cannot begin to run before that time, but it does not necessarily begin to run on that date unless the purchaser is then in actual adverse possession of the property. The rule is stated in Loper v. E. W. Gates Lumber Co., 210 Ala. 512 , 98 So. 722, 723 , as follows: ‘The statute of limitations does not begin to run in favor of the purchaser at a tax sale until the purchaser is in actual adverse possession of the land, and until the day “when the purchaser became entitled to demand a deed therefor.” ’ Odom v. Averett, supra; Lathem v. Lee, 249 Ala. 532 , 32 So.2d 211 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Quinn v. Hannon

2. ““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; * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bell v. Pritchard