Dibble v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Hawkins v. Bruno Yacht Sales, Inc. (2003), Tanner v. Florence County Treasurer (1999)
23 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 Aldridge v. Rutledge · Leysath v. Leysath · Dickson v. Burckmyer · Scott v. Boyle · Glymph v. Smith
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute [of limitations] was intended to bar a defaulting and ousted taxpayer from maintaining an action to defeat the title of the tax sale purchaser and recover the land if brought more than two years from the date the purchaser came into possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]ll requirements of the law leading up to tax sales [that] are intended for the protection of the taxpayer against surprise or the sacrifice of his property are to be regarded [as] mandatory and are to be strictly enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This [c]ourt has consistently held the enforcing agencies of government to strict compliance with all the legal requirements surrounding tax sales.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.