Edwin Hale v. William Henkel’s Empirical Analysis
201 U.S. 43 · 1906
Citation profile
898 federal appellate · 284 district · 594 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,827 later decisions (305 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Rakas v. Illinois (1979), United States v. Calandra (1974)
898 federal appellate · 284 district · 594 state decisions — followed in 47 states
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 Boyd v. United States · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Brown v. Walker
Cited together with Wilson v. United States · United States v. White · Boyd v. United States · Blair v. United States · Oklahoma Press Pub Co v. Walling US News Printing 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 2,827 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so strict is the rule that the privilege is a personal one that it has been held in some cases that counsel will not be allowed to make the objection.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(I)t is impossible to conceive that ... the examination of witnesses must be stopped until a basis is laid by an indictment formally preferred, when the very object of the examination is to ascertain who shall be indicted.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A general subpoena of this description is equally indefensible as a search warrant would be if couched in similar terms.”
17 later decisions 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.