McConnell v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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

1. ““Provided, that any judgment or decree of court, in law or equity, setting aside any tax deed procured under this act, or restoring the owner of same to possession, shall provide that the claimant shall pay to the party holding such tax deed ... all taxes and legal costs, as provided by laio. ... Ho final judgment or decree of court in any case either at law or in equity or in proceedings under the Eminent Domain Act involving the title to or interest in any land in which such party holding such tax deed shall have an interest or setting aside any tax deed procured under this act shall be entered until the claimant shall make reimbursement to the party holding such tax deed and payments as herein provided in so far as it shall appear that the holder of suGh deed or his assignors shall have properly paid or be entitled to in procuring such deed.” (Italics ours¡)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tubbs v. Dunlop

2. ““Taxes levied upon' real estate become a charge upon the land itself, and if they are not paid the land may be sold for the taxes due thereon, and the title will pass regardless of any incumbrance resting upon the land. (Cooper v. Corbin, 105 Ill. 224 ; People v. Evans, 262 id. 235 .) If the tax deed was void, then, under the provisions of paragraph 210 [now sec. 270] above set forth, before appellee was entitled to a decree setting aside such tax deed and for a foreclosure of his mortgage, free from appellants’ claim for taxes paid, it was necessary that appellee should make reimbursement to appellants for the payments of all taxes and legal costs which appellants had paid. This, appellee neither did nor offered to do. The decree does not require him to make such reimbursement, and it is therefore erroneous.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tubbs v. Dunlop