Freeman v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2014
18 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 Dallas Electric Supply Co. v. Branum Co. · Ferrous Products Co. v. Gulf States Trading Co. · Woodard v. Southwest States, Inc. · University State Bank v. Gifford-Hill Concrete Corp. · Eastex Wildlife Conservation Ass'n v. JASPER, ETC.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The complaint seems to be that it would be inconsistent for the appellee to seek what he says he is entitled to under the contract and at the same time seek to recover in quantum meruit what his labor and materials are reasonably worth. It is true that an express contract and quantum meruit are distinct and different relationships and inconsistent ideas, but the same record may contain evidence which will support either theory. A plaintiff may allege both theories and recover as the evidence may show.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beller v. De Lara
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.