Capps v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
October 2003
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Spradlin v. State · Spranger v. State · Gambill v. State · Heald 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of a petition for post-conviction relief is to raise issues unknown or unavailable to a defendant at the time of the original trial and appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin 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.