Barrera v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1983
7 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 In Re King's Estate · Benoit v. Wilson · Banks v. Collins · Cavanaugh v. Davis · Woodward v. Ortiz
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A deed absolute on its face may be construed as a mortgage if the evidence, including parol evidence, shows that such was the intention of the parties. Wilbanks v. Wilbanks, [160] Tex. [317], 330 S.W.2d 607 ; Brad shaw v. McDonald, 147 Tex. 455 , 216 S.W.2d 972 ; Kokernot v. Gilstrap, 143 Tex. 595 , 187 S.W.2d 368 ; Parmenter v. Kellis, Tex.Civ.App., 153 S.W.2d 965 . ‘The criterion is the continued existence of a debt or liability between the parties, so that the conveyance is in reality intended as a security for the debt or indemnity against the liability.’ 3 Pomeroy’s Equity Jurisprudence, 4th Ed., § 1185; Parmenter v. Kellis, supra.” Barrera v. Gonzalez, Tex.Civ.App., 341 S.W.2d 703 , (Writ Ref. N.R.E.)”
3 later decisions 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.