Ronkendorff v. Taylor's Lessee’s Empirical Analysis
29 U.S. 349 · 1830
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Graham v. du Pont (1923), Louis Kann v. Caroline King Henry Randall Webb (1907)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To devest an individual of his property against his consent, every substantial requisite of the law must be shown to have been complied with. No presumption can be raised in behalf of a collector who sells real estate for taxes, to cover any radical defect in his proceeding, and the proof of regularity in the procedure devolves upon the person who claims under the collector’s sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Monday, January the 6th, and omitted until Saturday, January the 18th, leaving an interval of eleven days”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A week is a definite period of time commencing on Sunday and ending on Saturday.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.