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183 F.2d 865 · 1950

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
December 1981
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 22 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1981

11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions

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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 18 U.S.C. § 2385 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 401

Relies on Counselman v. Hitchcock · Penfield Co of California v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Mason v. United States · United States v. Weisman · United States v. Zwillman

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If, in such a case, he say upon his oath that his answer would criminate himself, the court can demand no other testimony of the fact. If the declaration be untrue, it is in conscience and in law as much a perjury as if he had declared any other untruth upon his oath; as it is one of those cases in which the rule of law must be abandoned, or the oath of the witness be received.”
    1 later decision 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.