Greenfield v. Scafati’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Weaver v. Graham (1981), California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995)
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Zwickler v. Koota · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Lindsey v. State of Washington · Cummings v. The State of Missouri · Medley
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'any law which was passed after the commission of the offense for which the party is being tried ... which alters the situation of the accused to his disadvantage[ ] ...' is invalid as ex post facto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]e see no distinction between depriving a prisoner of the right to earn good conduct deductions and the right to qualify for, and hence earn, parole. Each, to quote In re Medley, supra, materially ‘alters the situation of the accused to his disadvantage.’ [Citation omitted.] “The same must be said as between providing unqualified parole and parole cum onere, i.e., subject to [the new law]. The difference between no penalty, other than a termination of the parole, and a substantial increase in imprisonment for violation, is far from inconsequential. To effect this by legislation enacted after the offense for which sentence was imposed cannot be constitutionally supported.” [ 277 F. Supp. at 646 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no distinction between depriving a prisoner of the right to earn good conduct deductions and the right to qualify for, and hence earn, parole. Each . . . materially 'alters the situation of the accused to his disadvantage.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weaver v. Graham
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.