Ross v. Royal’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 1953 · most notably Fuller v. Wilkinson (1939), Sims v. Petree (1944)
38 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 Terry v. Anderson · Jeannie Wilson v. Adam Iseminger H · Turner v. People of State of New York · Saranac Land Timber Company v. James a Roberts · 16 E.H. Smith 371 - Meigs v. . Roberts
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Turner v. New York, [ 168 U.S. 90 , 18 S.Ct. 38 , 42 L.Ed. 392 ] the Supreme Court of the United States held that the statute of New York `providing that deeds from the Comptroller of the State of Lands in the forest preserve sold for nonpayment of taxes shall, after having been recorded for two years, and in any action brought more than six months after the act takes effect, be conclusive evidence that there was no irregularity in the assessment of the taxes, is a statute of limitation, and does not deprive the former owner of such lands of his property without due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuller v. Wilkinson“We do not think that it can be said that the period of two years fixed by the statute is unreasonable. Under it no action can be barred in less time than four years after the tax sale, because two years time is given for redemption before a deed can be executed completing the sale, and there must be actual adverse occupancy for the full period of two years under the deed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuller v. Wilkinson“all actions to test the validity of any proceeding . . . in the sale of lands or lots delinquent for taxes, or proceedings whereby it is sought to avoid any (tax) sale . . . , shall be commenced within two years from the date of sale, and not afterward.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuller v. Wilkinson
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.