Interstate Bond Co. v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1978
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 Brachey v. Peddicord · Drane v. Graves · Faust v. Louisville Trust Co. · Hammonds v. Risner · Smith v. Isom
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.
“But it is a well recognized rule that proceedings for the sale of land for taxes must closely conform to the statutory requirements and that those terms must be strictly construed against the purchaser and in favor of the owner. The judicial treatment of tax sales is uniformly rigid. Ordinarily the delinquent tax and the amount for which the purchase is made is relatively very small. By making reimbursement and giving the purchaser ample compensation by way of interest and penalties, he is more than made whole and the property is saved to the owner.”
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.