National Bank v. Danforth’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 1978 · most notably General Electric Credit Corp. v. Brooks (1978), David Wells v. Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah J (1901)
47 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.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With reference to the public, we hold that the assessment, in case of an outstanding bond for titles, where the holder of it is in possession of the premises, may be made either against such holder or against the maker of the bond, the person in whom the legal title rests for the time being; and a sale by the public authorities founded on an assessment against either would pass the title, no doubt, as against the other, if it were made for the taxes of that property alone; because it is no less the duty of the one than the other, relatively to the public, to pay taxes, or to see that they are paid. But as between themselves it is very clear that the person who is in possession, enjoying the property itself or its rents and issues, ought to be charged, and is chargeable, with the taxes. If the vendor retains possession, and gets his interest and income too, of course he ought to pay taxes. If the vendee takes possession, and receives the income from the property, he ought pay the taxes, the vendor being charged with taxes on the unpaid purchase money, and in this case the whole of it is unpaid, relatively, to Mrs. Danforth, the maker of the bond for titles.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.