Jarrell v. McRainey’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1969
16 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 Dickinson v. Arkansas City Improvement Co. · Hoodless v. Jernigan · Wofford v. McKinna · Green v. McGrew · Levy v. Ladd
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““greater strictness is required of the description o'f the land contained in a tax deed than in voluntary deeds. The land must be described with such accuracy that with ordinary and reasonable certainty the land sold can be ascertained and identified. A tax deed is void for uncertainty in which the land is described as ‘lot 3 and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter less seven acres (lot 3, and N. E. % of N. W. % less seven acres) of Section five (5), Township forty-eight (48), Range four (4) West’: 2 Devlin on Deeds (3rd ed.) Sec. 1405; Johnson v. Ashland Lumber Co., 52 Wis. 458 , 9 N. W. Rep. 464 ; Alleman v. Hammond, 209 Ill. 70 , 70 N. E. Rep. 661; Green v. McGrew, 35 Ind. App. 104 , 72 N. E. Rep. 1049; 73 N. E. Rep. 832; 111 Am. St. Rep. 149 . The description of property in a tax deed must be certain in itself, or at least capable of being made certain by matters referred to in the deed itself as relating to the description, and evidence aliunde not referred to in the deed cannot be used to ascertain the land intended to be conveyed. See Power v. Bowdle, 3 N. Dak. 107, 54 N. W. Rep. 404 , 44 Am. St. Rep. 511 ; Wofford v. McKinna, 23 Tex. 36 , 76 Am. Dec. 53 .””
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.