Wood v. McCombe’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2010
9 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 Morris & Thombs v. St. Louis National Bank · People ex rel. Iron Silver Min. Co. v. Henderson · Lebanon Mining Co. of New York v. Rogers · Crisman v. Johnson · De Foresta v. Gast
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action for the recovery of land sold for taxes shall lie, unless the same be brought within five years after the execution and delivery of the deed therefore by the treasurer, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the advertisement of the tax sale was made by publication in the Sunday issue only of a newspaper”
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.