Emspak v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
264 federal appellate · 24 district · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 582 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), Malloy v. Hogan (1964)
264 federal appellate · 24 district · 125 state decisions — followed in 28 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Hoffman v. United States · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Rogers 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 582 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no ritualistic formula or talismanic phrase is essential in order to invoke”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * The protection of the Self-Incrimination Clause is not limited to admissions that ‘would subject [a witness] to criminal prosecution’; for this Court has repeatedly held that ‘Whether such admissions by themselves would support a conviction under a criminal statute is immaterial’ and that the privilege also extends to admissions that may only tend to incriminate. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the privilege against self-incrimination must be claimed ... [its waiver] is not lightly to be inferred ... [and] cannot properly be [found] ... upon vague and uncertain [grounds].”
2 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.