Barrow v. Lapene’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “Proceeding to consider what judgment should' have been rendered, we admit the general' principle, that a party seeking to annul a tax title, prima faoie valid, must first tender to the purchaser reimbursement of the sums paid by him in discharge, of his bid, and which enured to the benefit of the attacking party, and this principle would, perhaps, 'extend to proper taxes on the property paid by the purchaser while in possession.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mendenhall v. Hall

2. “And if this want of tender is pleaded in limine, and the amount is apparent or made to ap' pea,r, plaintiff should not be allowed to sue until it is tendered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mendenhall v. Hall