Seaver v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Can it be that a person, by mistake or accident, failing to pay taxes on his farm, and it is purchased by another who acquires a deed, is precluded by public policy or any rule of law from receiving a conveyance from the purchaser or his assignee? Must such a title remain outstanding, beyond the power of the former owner to remove or extinguish it? Does the law impose such penalties aud disabilities for such accidents, mistakes, or even for gross inattention or neglect? The law is intended to be reasonable and just in all of its requirements, but such a rule would be harsh in the extreme and palpably unjust.” See, also, Blackwood v. Van Vleit, 30 Mich. 118 ; Insurance Co. v. Bulte, 45 id. 120 ; and Cooley on Taxation, 2d ed., 506.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ard v. Pratt