Capps v. Joiner’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1972
4 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 Waggoner Estate v. Sigler Oil Co. · Stinson v. Sneed · Persons v. Frost & Co. · Alexander v. Heidenheimer · Spencer v. Davis
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The remedy of specific performance being therefore unavailable to one of the parties, because of the nature of the contract, it is not available to the other party. “The contract being for the personal services of Goodwin, upon whose personal will the performance thereof rests, it cannot be specifically enforced against him; and, since it cannot be enforced against him, it lacks essential mutuality and cannot be enforced against the other party.” (See cases cited).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gage v. Wimberley
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.