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← 759 SW2D 121 - Capistran v. State

Capistran v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
3
states following
August 2006
most recently cited

39 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Brookhart v. Janis

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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[I]f, during the progress of a cause, any party thereto requests] or move[s] the court to make an erroneous ruling, and the court rule[s] in accordance with such request or motion, he cannot take advantage of the error on appeal.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he classic definition of waiver []followed by this Court [is] `an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege, Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458 , 58 S.Ct. 1019 , 82 L.Ed. 1461 (1938).'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.