Kenneth Sailer v. J. B. Gunn’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.2d 271 · 1977
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Chavez v. United States (1981), United States v. Segal (1977)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Pate v. Robinson
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the due process clause a hearing on a defendant’s competence to plead guilty is required if the trial judge entertains or should reasonably have entertained a good-faith doubt as to the competence of the defendant to understand the nature and consequences of his plea or to participate intelligently in the proceedings, including his ability to make a reasoned choice among the alternatives presented to him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly the mere fact that psychiatric help was felt to be desirable as an aid to rehabilitation cannot be said to create a bona fide doubt of [petitioner's] capacity to participate intelligently in the proceedings facing him....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Unlike a guilty plea, sentencing and probation revocation proceedings do not necessarily involve the relinquishment of constitutional rights, (citation omitted) When waiver of constitutional rights is not involved the competence in question entails mental ability and understanding of the same sort that the defendant is called upon to exercise in the courts of standing trial. * * * ” Sailer v. Gunn, supra, 548 F.2d at 274 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hartford
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.