Davies v. Rayburn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In Scudder v. Hart, * * * we protected a mortgagee where such a mistake had been made even though the owner had been advised of the mistake in time to effect a redemption,. but in this case it is clearly indicated that had the mortgagee also been advised of the mistake, relief would have been denied him. In that case we quoted with approval the first part of 61 C.J. 1290, Sec. 1794, to the effect that a landowner seeking to redeem his property but failing to do so because of erroneous information given him by the collecting officer would be protected. In the latter part of this same section we find: ‘To enable the owner to claim the right to redeem on this ground, however, it must appear that the fault or mistake was exclusively that of the officer, unmixed with any mistake or negligence on the part of the owner himself * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Redman v. Walters

2. ““In this case the appellant was advised of the mistake and of the fact that her land had been sold to the state for delinquent taxes and although she had ample time in which to redeem it she failed to do so. “She has lost her land as the result of her own negligence, and the judgment will be affirmed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Redman v. Walters