7 Tex. Civ. App. 263 - Freiberg v. De Lamar’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1947
17 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The guardian, Mrs. De Lamar, had no power without authority from the probate court to discharge Merritt from his liability for the debt, and release the lien by which it was secured; and, notwithstanding her act in receipting the note and executing the instrument to Freiberg, the debt was not discharged, and the lien to secure it continued in full vigor. Freiberg knew of the existence of the charge against the property in favor of the minor, was charged by law with notice of the guardian’s want of power to release it, and must abide the legitimate consequences of the failure to pay the debt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Randell v. Fellers
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.