Capps v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1987
5 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 Nissen v. Flournoy · Williams v. Walden · Lineback v. Smith · Graves v. Bowles · 50 Tex. Crim. 589 - Miller v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such services are enjoined by the reciprocal duties of the family relation, and are always presumed to have been prompted by natural love rather than by the promise or the hope of pecuniary reward. “Courts are reluctant to infer a pecuniary recompense from performance of filial or parental duties such as humanity enjoins.” Hence the burden is upon [the person] who claims a money recompense for personal services performed, whether voluntarily, or upon the request of the other, to establish a contract expressed or implied for such consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Brown
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.