Sinclair v. Learned’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1970 · most notably State Tax-Law Cases (1884), Colton v. Rupert (1886)
25 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Merrill v. Humphrey · People v. Lynch · Case v. Dean · Hartwell v. Root · Cofield v. McClelland
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That no person shall be entitled to the recovery of the possession of land purchased and held by such person from the State, or held as grantee of a previous grantee or grantees of the State, for the non-payment of taxes, nor shall any such person or his legal representatives be lawfully entitled to the possession of any such lands, unless such person shall have, at any time before final judgment in his favor, or at the time of entering into such possession, either paid all the taxes levied and assessed upon such lands subsequent to the date of any tax deed under which he claims, or tendered the amount of taxes thus paid to the person who paid the same, if such person be the person against whom recovery is sought, or shall have acquired all the tax titles given for the taxes levied and assessed subsequent to such first acquired title, and previous to the entering into such possession.” How. Stat. § 1208.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beard v. Sharrick““As the statute, Comp. Laws (1871), § 6920, made it the duty of the sheriff to file the deed immediately, it would seem that the presumption of law that an officer performs his duty ought to prevail until the fact was disproved. This is a very necessary presumption where considerable time has elapsed since the official act was done or should have been done, and it ought to prevail so far at least as to throw the burden of proof upon the party questioning it, unless the circumstances of the case overturn it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.