Capps v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 350 · 1993
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Rohrbaugh v. Celotex Corp. (1995), Hooks v. Workman (2012)
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Irvin v. Dowd · Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky · Hilton v. Braunskill · Royall · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] legal decision made at one stage of litigation, unchallenged in a subsequent appeal when the opportunity to do so existed, becomes the law of the case for future stages of the same litigation, and the parties are deemed to have waived the right to challenge that decision at a later time.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'federal courts should abstain from the exercise of ... jurisdiction if the issues raised in the [2241] petition may be resolved either by trial on the merits in the state court or by other state procedures ...'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“forming the basis for the relief cannot be corrected in further proceedings,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.