State v. Vickers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 state decisions

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

1. ““[t]he essential ingredient of a civil contempt sanction is that the contemnor is given the opportunity to purge himself of his contempt, and such is the case when no determinate sentence is imposed or when the determinate sentence imposed is made on condition that the contemnor be released if he be willing to [comply with the court’s order].” Id., at 328 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Small v. Small

2. “[T]he constitutional privilege against self-incrimination protects against any disclosures which the witness reasonably believes could be used in a criminal prosecution or could lead to other evidence that might be so used. State v. Vickers, Me., 309 A.2d 324, 327 (1973).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Troiano

3. ““could not be used, directly or indirectly, in any future criminal prosecution in any court of the land, state or federal.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hanson