Leigh v. Trippe’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1973
12 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 Cooper v. Freeman Lumber Co. · Radcliffe v. Scruggs · Quertermous v. Walls
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This shows that the framers of the statute did not intend to provide with accuracy of detail the particular method in which the record should be kept, but that the end to be attained was that a permanent record should be kept from which the owner of the land could ascertain the amount of taxes, penalty and costs for which his land was sold.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Liddell v. Stone
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.