Cullen v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1985
13 state decisions
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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who may have been the bearer of such challenge or acceptance, or otherwise engaged or concerned in any. duel, may be required, in any prosecution against any person but himself, for having fought, or aided or abetted in such duel, to testify as a witness in' such prosecution ; but any statement made by such person, as such witness, shall not be used against him in any prosecution against himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to declare, as part of the organic law, that no man should anywhere, before any tribunal, in any proceeding, be compelled to give evidence tending to criminate himself, either in that or any other ‘ proceeding ;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself.”
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.