Cruz v. Prado’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1983
8 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 Long v. Long · Scott v. Townsend · Scott v. Townsend · 22 Tex. Civ. App. 22 - McIntosh v. Moore · Salinas v. Garcia
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no presumption against a will, because made by a man advanced in age: * * * Incapacity cannot be inferred from enfeebled condition of mind or body; for, if incapacity could be inferred from such facts, a man by mere inference might be deprived of his legal right to dispose of his property as he sees fit””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Welch
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.