Boyce v. Sebring’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1935
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Lacey v. Davis & McFarren · Butters v. Haughwout · Sibley v. Smith · Silsbee v. Stockle · Peninsula Iron & Lumber Co. v. Township of Crystal Falls
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The burden of proof is upon the party attacking a tax deed to show its illegality. The law declares that all taxes assessed upon any property in this State shall be presumed to be legally assessed, until the contrary affirmatively appears. This affirmative showing may, and often does, in these cases, involve the production by the attacking party pf negative proof; and it was incumbent upon the plaintiff in this ease, in order to overthrow the presumption of the legality of the amount levied for township purposes, to introduce the township records to show that the amount which the supervisor levied for township purposes was unauthorized. Robbins v. Barron, 33 Mich. 124 ; Upton v. Kennedy, 36 Id. 215 ; Hunt v. Chapin, 42 Id. 24.””
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.