Laton v. Balcom’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably Ricker's Petition (1890), Seaver v. Adams (1889)
27 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Moss v. Shear · Brown v. Simons · Bowman v. Cockrill · Blackwood v. Van Vleit · Woodbury v. Swan
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To preclude a person from acquiring a valid tax title he must be under some legal or moral obligation to pay the tax, or there must be something in his contract or fiduciary relation to the owner of the property which renders it inequitable, as between them, that he should acquire the title,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The obligations and duties of husbands and wives to each other, both express and implied, create such relations of trust and confidence between them that neither can acquire the other's property by a clandestine payment of taxes.”
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.