Will v. Ritchie’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2008
6 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 Green v. Biddle · Gatton v. Tolley · Board of Regents of Kansas State Agricultural College v. Linscott · Rabb v. Patterson · Trubee v. Miller
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the statute conferred on the tax-deed holder the right to possession, with no conditions attached, except that such right should continue only until the successful claimant repay to him the taxes and interest to which he was entitled, it could not be said that, for the enjoyment of such right, compensation must be made to the legal owner.” (p. 717.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duff v. Penick
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.