William M. Gilday, Jr. v. Palmer C. Scafati’s Empirical Analysis
428 F.2d 1027 · 1970
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Loper v. Beto (1972), United States v. Weston (1971)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 16 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
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Griffin v. California · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Harrington v. California
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We conclude that the Burgett rule against the use of uncounseled convictions ‘to prove guilt’ was intended to prohibit their use ‘to impeach credibility,’ for the obvious purpose and likely effect of impeaching the defendant’s credibility is to imply, if not prove, guilt ... we fail to discern any distinction which would allow such invalid convictions to be used to impeach credibility. The absence of counsel impairs the reliability of such convictions just as much when used to impeach as when direct proof of guilt.” Id.”
9 later decisions 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.