Davis v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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

1. ““Section 11145 provides that ‘the owner or occupant of any land or lot sold for taxes, or any other persons having an interest therein, may redeem the same.’ (Our italics.) This undoubtedly means an occupant having some interest therein, whose rights might be affected by transfer of ownership. It might include a lessee. It does include the holder of a trust deed. State ex rel. Wilkins v. King, 354 Mo. 501 , 189 S. W. 2d 981 . Plaintiff was certainly an occupant of the land whose rights would be affected by a transfer of ownership. In fact, his occupation and control, if under a claim of ownership, would have been sufficient to show title by adverse possession. Mrs. Lynn, who had the record title, never exercised any rights of ownership and has since conveyed the record title to plaintiff. In State ex rel. and to the Use of Crites v. Short, 351 Mo. 1013 , 174 S. W. 2d 821 , we upheld the right of redemption of a grantee of one who took under an unacknowledged quitclaim deed, although both deeds were made after sale but prior to the time when the purchaser became entitled to a collector’s deed. While plaintiff herein did not get a deed until after this suit was commenced, we think he had sufficient interest prior thereto to come within the above-'quoted portion of Section __11145 providing who shall have the- right to redeem. Plaintiff was an occupant of the land under a claim of right to protect his obligation on an encumbrance equal to the full value of the land. He was attem”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shaw v. Armstrong · York v. Horner

2. ““Defendant says the only question involved on this appeal is whether plaintiff had an interest in the land, at the time this action was commenced, which would entitle him to redeem it from a tax sale under the Jones-Munger Tax Law; * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shaw v. Armstrong