Corbett v. Nutt’s Empirical Analysis
77 U.S. 464 · 1870
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006 · most notably Pennoyer v. Neff (1877), Cole v. Cunningham (1890)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Fairfax's Devisee v. Hunter's Lessee · Ducat v. Chicago · Smith v. The State of Maryland at the Instance and for the Use of Carroll and Maccubbin · Patterson v. Brindle
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts should give to statutes authorizing redemption from tax sales, a construction favorable to owners.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“.all sales, transfers, and conveyances of any such property after the expiration of the said sixty days,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Conrad v. Waples · In Re Rahn“[T]he owner of the land, or any loyal person of the United States having any valid lien upon or interest in the land, may at any time, within sixty days after the sale, appear before the board of tax commissioners, in proper person, and redeem the land from sale upon paying the amount of the tax and penalty, with the interest and expenses prescribed, and taking an oath, if a citizen, to support the Constitution of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.