Cappetta v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 1983 · most notably Edwards v. State (1981), United States of America Ex Rel. Lillian Reis, Cross-Appellee v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, Cross-Appellant (1976)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Sawyer v. State of Florida · 160 So. 2d 518 - State Ex Rel. Ervin v. Smith · King v. Wainwright · 194 So. 2d 241 - State v. Barton · Jackson v. State
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been held ... that one may not contest the competency of privately retained counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vagner v. Wainwright
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.