Braxton v. Rich’s Empirical Analysis
47 F. 178 · 1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1993
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Armstrong v. Morrill · De Forest v. Thompson · 28 W. Va. 820 - Waggoner v. Wolf · Jones v. Dils
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Seo. 2. A11 lands in this State heretofore vested in the State of Virginia by forfeiture, or by .purchase at the sheriffs’ sales for delinquent taxes and not released or exonerated by the laws therdofj or by the operation of the seventh section of the ninth article of the constitution of this State, may be redeemed by the former owners by payment into the treasury of this State, upon the certificate of the auditor, of the amount !of taxes and damages due thereon at the time of such redemption, on or before the twentieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. “Sec. 3. All waste and unappropriated lands within this 'State, and all lands in this State heretofore vested in the State of Yirginia by forfeiture or by purchase at the sheriffs’ sales for delinquent taxes, not released and exonerated, or redeemed in the manner- prescribed in the second section of this act, «hall be sold for the benefit of the school fund, in the manner hereinafter directed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rich v. Braxton“lacking in all of those essential elements that go to make up a continuous adverse ‘possession or holding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rich v. Braxton
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.