Winning v. Eakin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““No irregularity, error or mistake in the delinquent list, or the return thereof, or in the affidavit thereto, or in the list of sales filed with the clerk of the county court, or in the affidavit thereto, or in the recordation of such list or affidavit or as to the manner of laying off any real estate so sold, or in the plat, description or report thereof, made by the surveyor, or other person,” shall invalidate the sale and deed. Again: “But no sale or deed of any such real estate under the provisions of this chapter shall be set aside, or in any manner effected by reason of the failure of any officer mentioned in this chapter to do or perform any act or duty herein required to be done or performed by him after such sale is made, or by the illegal or defective performance or attempt at the performance of any such act or duty after such sale, or by reason of the conveyance by the deed hereinbefore mentioned and prescribed, of a less quantity of real estate than that mentioned in the list of sales made out and returned as provided in the twelfth, thirteenth and four teenth sections of this, chapter, if the real estate so conveyed by such deed, be in fact, the same which was sold as delinquent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barnes v. Bee