FREEMAN v. Truitt’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2018
2 federal appellate · 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 Columbian Mut. Life Inc. Co. v. Craft · McNeill v. Simpson · Hattiesburg Production Credit Ass'n v. Smith · Anderson v. Lancaster · Deerfield State Bank v. Coerber
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Other promissory notes which are to be paid in installments but which are not secured by mortgages which have been foreclosed have been considered by this Court to fall under the six-year statute of limitation which begins to run as to each installment from the time that it falls due.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“first, to the payment of the interest accrued on the indebtedness to the date of receipt of such partial payment, and the residue of such partial payment should [be] applied to the payment of the oldest unpaid installments of the indebtedness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the right of the parties to establish the due date of the obligation is well settled”
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.