Dawson v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1956
18 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the deed of the collector without proof of the compliance with all the requirements of the law necessary to call into exercise his authority to make the sale is no evidence of title in the party claiming under it, is no longer an open question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Land v. Banks““Our courts have determined that from the tax deed no presumption is drawn that the requisite proceedings upon which the power to sell arises Have been taken.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Land v. Banks
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.