Nicholson v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1928
8 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 Leffingwell v. Warren · Alexander and Other v. Pendleton · Faloon v. Simshauser · Hinchman v. Whetstone · Walker v. Boh
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An exception to the rule that a statute of limitations can only be used as a shield of defense and not as a weapon of attack is recognized where the person claiming under the statute has been wrongfully dispossessed after the prescribed period has run.” (p. 602.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think that when a tax deed, valid on its face, has been of record for five years, and the tax-title holder is in possession, claiming by virtue of the tax deed, and one claiming adversely wrongfully dispossesses him by force, fraud, or stealth, the holder of the tax title may maintain ejectment to regain what was wrongfully taken from him. ... To hold otherwise would encourage reprisals and scrambling for possession, which the law discountenances.” (p. 603.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buehler v. Teetor
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.