United States v. Gecas’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.3d 1419 · 1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. Balsys (1998), 23 Cal. 4th 1121 - Alvarado v. Superior Court (2000)
18 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 46 · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1225 (§ 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1251 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1253 (§ 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Bonner v. City of Prichard
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person . . . may be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself or herself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““[The privilege against self incrimination] reflects many of our fundamental values and most noble aspirations: our unwillingness to subject those suspected of crime to the cruel trilemma of self-accusation, perjury or contempt; ... our sense of fan-play which dictates “a fair state-individual balance by requiring the government to leave the individual alone until good cause is shown for disturbing him and by requiring the government in its contest with the individual to shoulder the entire load” ... [and] our respect for the. inviolability of the human personality and of the right of each individual “to a private enclave where he may lead a private life”....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Barrera v. State““The fundamental value that the privilege reflects is intangible, it is true; but'so is liberty, and so is man’s immortal soul. A man may be punished, even put to death, by the state; but ... he should not be made to prostrate himself before its majesty. Mea culpa belongs to a man- and his God. It is a plea that cannot be exacted from free men by human authority. To require it is to insist that the state is the superior of the individuals who compose it, instead of them instrument.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Barrera v. State
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.