United States v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
18 F. 87 · 1883
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1964
1 district ·
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 People Ex Rel. Hackley v. Kelly · Mechanics' Bank of Alexandria v. Withers
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not sufficient to excuse the witness from answering that he. may in his own mind think his answer to the question might by possibility lead to some criminal charge against him, or tend to convict him of it, if made. The court must be able to perceive that there is reasonable ground to apprehend danger to the witness from his being compelled to answer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An Act for the Protection in certain Cases of Persons making Disclosures as Parties, or testifying as Witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.