Boocks's Petition’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1972 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stofchek (1936), Commonwealth v. Fireman's Fund Insurance (1952)
25 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 Gratz v. Insurance Co. of North America · Reeves v. Philadelphia Suburban Water Co. · Commonwealth v. Alderman · Sloan v. Longcope · Stamey v. Barkley
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.
““Briefly summarized the terms of the Statute are as follows: The purchaser of land at a sale for unpaid taxes may present his petition to the court of common pleas of the county wherein the land is situate, setting forth the location and description of the land, the names of the former owners, persons in possession, claimants, etc. Thereupon a rulé shall be granted upon the persons named in the petition to appear within sixty days from its service and show cause why the title of the petitioner should not be adjudicated and decreed valid.””
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.