Smith v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1905
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no question that the tax deed, so issued and executed in violation of law, is absolutely void. Tax proceedings, by which the owner of land may be devested of his title, must be strictly in accordance with the law. The authority of the county clerk to issue a tax deed must be found in the statute, or it does not exist at all, and the deed he executes without such authority conveys no title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Bird
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.