McDonald v. Hannah’s Empirical Analysis
59 F. 977 · 1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1937
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Fourth Nat Bank of City of New York v. Francklyn · Gormley v. Bunyan · Blight's v. Rochester · Cox v. Hart · Fitzgerald v. Caldwell's executors
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.
““Where the law requires the land to be listed in the name of the owner of the fee, or of any oilier interest in the estate, provides for a personal demand of the tax, and, in case of default, authorizes the seizure of the body or goods of the delinquent in satisfaction of the tax, and in terms, or upon a, fair construction of the law, permits a. sale of the land only when all other remedies have been exhausted, then the sale and conveyance by the officer passes only the interest of him, in whose name it was listed, upon whom the demand was made, who had notice of the proceedings, and who alone can bo regarded as legally delinquent. In such cases the title is a derivative one, and the tax purchaser can recover in ejectment, only such interest as lid may prove to have been vested in the defaulter at the time of the assessment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.