Machicek v. Barcak’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2007
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 Mayer v. Swift · Webster v. Cadwallader · Rosek v. Kotzur
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The head of the family, being charged with the responsibility of discharging the encumbrance and thus preserving the homestead, must necessarily have the right to renew, rearrange, and readjust the encumbering obligation; otherwise he might lose the homestead through foreclosure proceedings, and the very purpose of the constitutional inhibition against encumbering the homestead be defeated. In accomplishing this purpose he may change the form of the obligation so long as he acts in good faith and does not intentionally increase the burden on the homestead for purposes other than are necessary for the readjustment of the outstanding obligation.” Machicek v. Barcak, 141 Tex. 165 , 170 S.W.2d 715, 717 (1943).”
2 later decisions 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.