Loving v. McPhail’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1938
10 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 Bullock v. Wallace
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The property holder made an effort in good faith to pay all taxes upon the property long before there was any delinquency., and was clearly prevented from doing so by the mistake or fault of the officer charged with the duty to collect the taxes. . . . Such an effort by the property owner to pay taxes is the legal equivalent of payment, in so far as to discharge the lien and bar a sale for nonpayment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gleason v. Owens
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.