Kopplin v. Burleigh County’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions

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.

1. ““It is the authority under which the officers act and not the recitals in the deed that determine its scope and validity. * * * It follows that the substance of the deed may not be varied by the officers executing it. The powers of public officers are to be measured by the terms and necessary implications of the grant conferring the power on them. In this case the mandate of the statute is that in conveying lands forfeited to the County for nonpayment of taxes the officers do so by an instrument conveying to the purchaser ‘all right, title, and interest’ the County has in the lands conveyed. An instrument conveying any lesser estate is not a compliance with the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Steen v. Fay

2. ““ ‘Upon the payment of the purchase price in cash, or the payment in full of all installments, with interest to the date of payment, the county shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed conveying to him all right, title, and interest of the county in and to such property.’ ” NDRC 1943, 57-2815, subd. 5. (Italics supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Probasco, Sr. v. Sikes