State v. Cappetta’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009 · most notably Indiana v. Edwards (2008), Martinez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District (2000)
1 federal appellate · 36 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 Brown v. United States · 106 So. 2d 407 - Armstrong v. City of Tampa · Cappetta v. State · United States v. Cantor · 176 So. 2d 76 - Mason 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the absence of unusual circumstances an accused who is mentally competent and sui juris has the right to conduct his own defense without counsel by virtue of Section 11, Declaration of Rights, Florida Constitution.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. State · Bowen v. State
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.