Muse v. Muse’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1985
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 Succession of Dugas · Latour v. Guillory · Succession of Daste · Farrar v. Johnson · Succession of Guidry
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Children are bound to maintain their father and mother and other ascendants, who are in need, and the relatives in the direct ascending line are likewise bound to maintain their needy descendants, this obligation being reciprocal. This reciprocal obligation ... arises only upon proof of inability to obtain these necessities by other means or from other sources."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jennings v. Goldsby““ * * * There is always a presumption, when such services are rendered by a son or daughter to the parent, that the services are gratuitous;, and the law will not allow compensation in such cases without proof of a promise or expressed intention on the part of the parent to pay for the services. * * *” (Emphasis added).”
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.