Hammond v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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

1. “' “The advancement of purchase money, by one party to another, with the express understanding that the first party is to have a lien upon the property purchased to secure his advancement, gives the first party an equitable and enforceable lien superior to a subsequent claim of homestead, notwithstanding no written lien was executed to fulfill the agreement at the very time the purchase money was advanced. It is sufficient that this equitable lien be recognized by the subsequent execution of the written lien,” citing Benavides v. Houston Ice & Brewing ’Ass’n (Tex. Civ. App.) 224 S. W. 385, 388 , writ denied.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. First Nat. Bank in Lubbock v. Casey