396 So. 2d 70 - Ex Parte Capps’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2008
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 Ex parte Dickens · State Ex Rel. Patterson v. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People · Evans v. Evans
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.
“proving inability is a defensive matter, the burden of which rests on the contemnor.”); Hopp v. Hopp, 279 Minn. 170 , 156 N.W.2d 212, 217 (1968) (same); Houtchens v. District Court, 122 Mont. 76 , 199 P.2d 272, 274 (1948) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lynch v. Lynch
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.