Rogers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 367 · 1951
Citation profile
958 federal appellate · 139 district · 525 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,175 later decisions (97 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Malloy v. Hogan (1964)
958 federal appellate · 139 district · 525 state decisions — followed in 45 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. Wertheimer v. United States. Blau v. United States. Bary v. United States. Kleinbord v. United States (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Boyd v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Counselman v. Hitchcock
Cited together with Hoffman v. United States · Brown v. Walker · Mason v. United States · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Emspak 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 2,175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If petitioner desired the protection of the privilege against self-incrimination, she was required to claim it. United States v. Monia, 1943, 317 U.S. 424 , 427, 63 S.Ct. 409 , 410, 87 L.Ed. 376 . The privilege ‘is deemed waived unless invoked.’ United States v. Murdock, 1931, 284 U.S. 141 , 148, 52 S. Ct. 63 , 64, 76 L.Ed. 210 . Furthermore, the decisions of this Court are explicit in holding that the privilege against self-incrimination ‘is solely for the benefit of the witness/ and 'is purely a personal privilege of the witness.’ ””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(d)isclosure of a fact waives the privilege as to details.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s to each question to which a claim of privilege is directed, the court must determine whether the answer to that particular question would subject the witness to a 'real danger' of ...[in]crimination.”
14 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.