In Re Schnitzer’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1999
2 federal appellate · 7 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Sullivan · Mason v. United States · Matter of Doyle · In re Moser · In Re Watson
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.
““If a direct answer, to the question propounded may incriminate, the privilege of silence must be accorded. But the liberality of construction to be accorded is not to be extravagantly extended so as -to obstruct the administration of justice when an answer will not jeopardize. Mason v. United States, 244 U. S. 362 (37 Sup. Ct. 621, 61 L. Ed. 1198 ).. The Constitution does not permit the witness fto arbitrarily hide behind a fancied or intangible danger’ (In re Moser, supra). The tendency to incriminate must be a reasonable one; an,answer may not be withheld because it might possibly under some conceivable circumstances form part of a crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hoffa
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.