Blau v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 159 · 1950
Citation profile
214 federal appellate · 40 district · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 555 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Kastigar v. United States (1972), Hoffman v. United States (1951)
214 federal appellate · 40 district · 118 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRogers v. United States (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2385
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Counselman v. Hitchcock · United States v. White · Mason v. United States
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 555 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) nswers to the questions asked by the grand jury would have furnished a link in the chain of evidence needed in a prosecution of the petitioner.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * do you know the names of the State officers of the Communist Party of Colorado ? * * * Do you know the names of any persons who might now have the books and records of the Communist Party of Colorado?” (p. 160, 71 S.Ct. p. 223).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No person * * * shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tucker v. Hubner
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.