Capps v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
September 1997
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McDonald v. Commonwealth · Swanigan v. Commonwealth · Hopper v. Commonwealth · Moore v. Commonwealth · Hendricks v. Commonwealth
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.
“When the competency of an infant to testify is properly raised it is then the duty of the trial court to carefully examine the witness to ascertain whether she (or he) is sufficiently intelligent to observe, recollect and narrate the facts and has a moral sense of obligation to speak the truth”
3 later decisions 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.