Commonwealth v. Sprock’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tremont Township School District Appeal · Bernitsky v. Schuylkill County · Fayette County Commissioners' Petition
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is clear that a tax claim bureau must become trustee of a property at the moment it concludes the upset sale, that is, when the property is struck down, and legal title to the tax delinquent property passes to the tax claim bureau, as trustee, at that time, which is the most appropriate time for that to happen because the owner’s right of redemption at that time is extinguished.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the owner of a property fails to pay real estate taxes on that property, the amount of those taxes becomes a first lien against the property and is filed with the tax claim bureau of the county in which the property is located. If the lien is not satisfied, the tax claim bureau will, after notice and opportunity to cure, offer the property for sale at an upset tax sale. A property owner may satisfy the lien(s) against his property by paying the amount of the lien(s) to the tax claim bureau prior to an upset sale....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Mandatory judicial sale •. If within the period of ten (10) months after- the date of the scheduled - upset sale, the bureau has not filed a petition for a-judicial sale under section 610 or the property has not been sold at private sale, the, bureau shall, within the next immediately following two (2) months, file a petition for judicial sale of the property in the manner set forth in section 610.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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