On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 11:40:51 -0700 (PDT), Terry Schwartz
wrote:

There certainly is no point trying to measure a split open capacitor.

Sure. But since I had removed two components and the short went away,
I felt it was worth checking them both for a short. It turns out none
of them are shorted, which is where it gets interesting.

Some capacitors do fail short. In fact, some are designed specifically
to fail short.