Messer v. Henlein’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2006
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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This court has held on many occasions that a tax deed issued without strict compliance with the statutory requirements as to the service of notice of expiration of redemption is void. Blakemore v. Cooper, 15 N.D. 5 , 106 N.W. 566 , 4 L.R.A.,N.S., 1074, 125 Am.St.Rep. 574 ; Davidson v. Kepner, 37 N.D. 198 , 163 N.W. 831 ; Baird v. Zahl, 58 N.D. 388 , 226 N.W. 549 ; Biberdorf v. Juhnke, 59 N.D. 1 , 228 N.W. 233 . In Cruser v. Williams, 13 N.D. 284 , 100 N.W. 721 , this court said: `The redemption period does not terminate, or the certificate of sale mature, or title pass, until the statutory notice of the expiration of redemption has been given.' It is thus clear that the issuance of a tax deed to Stark County of the property here in suit did not operate to cut off defendant's right of redemption nor vest title in the county. It also follows that plaintiff acquired no title to the property for his grantor could not convey that which it did not possess."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Strom v. Giske · Wittrock v. Weisz
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.