United States v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.2d 521 · 1941
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1980 · most notably Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), United States v. Echeles (1965)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 Hyde v. United States · United States v. Kissel · Local 167 of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Chauffeurs Stablemen Helpers of America v. United States · Hyde v. United States · Mulloney v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As Professor Wigmore has said, the privilege (against self-incrimination) is ‘an option of refusal and not a prohibition of inquiry’.””
3 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.