United States of America Ex Rel. John McGrath v. J. E. Lavallee, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York’s Empirical Analysis
348 F.2d 373 · 1965
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably Scott v. United States (1969), 256 F. Supp. 244 - United States Ex Rel. Elksnis v. Gilligan (1966)
26 federal appellate · 3 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 MacHibroda v. United States · Kercheval v. United States · Bandy v. United States · Pilkington v. United States · United States of America Ex Rel. John McGrath v. J. E. Lavallee, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fair description of the consequences attendant upon [Caudill's] choice of plea, a description which was manifestly essential to an informed decision on [his] part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Caudill v. Jago“voluntarily after proper advice and with full understanding of the consequences,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unfairly obtained or given through ignorance, fear or inadvertence * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.