Freeman v. LaMorte’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1992 · most notably 8 Cal. App. 4th 118 - Reddy v. Gonzalez (1992), 257 Cal. App. 2d 825 - Doak v. Superior Court of L.A Cty. (1968)
24 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 34 Cal. 2d 515 - Sapp v. Barenfeld · Fross v. Wotton · 39 Cal. 2d 321 - Hansen v. Cramer · Odone v. Marzocchi · Heffernan v. Bennett & Armour
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is well settled in this state that the relationship of debtor and creditor arises in tort cases the moment the cause of action accrues.’ Hansen v. Cramer, 39 Cal.2d 321, 323 , 245 P.2d 1059, 1060 , 30 A.L.R.2d 1204 ; McKinney v. Wright, 105 Cal.App. 401, 407 , 287 P. 506 . Furthermore the transfer could be set aside if there was an actual intent to defraud although Bennie was not rendered insolvent. Fross v. Wotton, 3 Cal.2d 384, 389 , 44 P.2d 350 ; Civ.Code § 3439.07.” Freeman v. LaMorte, 148 Cal.App.2d 670 , 307 P.2d 734, at 738 .”
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.