Pierce v. McGinley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “" ‘One who is under a moral or legal obligation to pay taxes assessed against land cannot, by allowing the land to be sold as a consequence of .his failure to pay such taxes, add to or strengthen his own title by purchasing the land at the tax sale, either in person or through the agency of another, or by purchasing the land from a stranger who has acquired title at or through the tax sale. Such purchase is deemed a mode of redeeming the land from the tax sale and paying the taxes, and any interest so acquired ordinarily inures to the benefit of cotenants or others as to interests or rights owned by them in the land prior to the tax sale,’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Commissioners of the Land Office v. Bingaman · Knutter v. Smith