Mueller v. District Court’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. 58.16 Acres of Land · 19 N.C. App. 245 - Golding v. Taylor · Tipton v. City of Lakewood · Espinoza v. People · 26 N.C. App. 414 - Harrington Manufacturing Co. v. Powell Manufacturing Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While we agree that ordinarily, in the absence of an extension of time, failure to object to interrogatories within the time fixed by the rule is a waiver of any objection, we hold that this principle must yield to the privilege against self-incrimination guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Federal Constitution."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the failure to make a timely objection to interrogatories or requests to produce documents did not constitute a waiver of the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination. . . . Such a waiver must be knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily made.”
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.