McLaughlin v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 1995
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hastings v. Lusk · Hosmer v. Loveland
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This investigation before the common council was then a judicial investigation in the sense that the common council could summon witnesses, administer an oath to them, and punish them for refusing to testify.... Testimony given under such circumstances is absolutely privileged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The witness testified under compulsion, and he is entitled to the protection that what he says as a witness shall not be a cause of injury to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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