Reina v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
193 federal appellate · 18 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 388 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Katz v. United States (1967), Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor (1964)
193 federal appellate · 18 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedUnited States v. Reina (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Brown v. Walker · Ullmann v. United States · Hem v. United States · Green 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 388 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ordinary rule is that once a person is convicted of a crime, he no longer has the privilege against self-incrimination as he can no longer be incriminated by his testimony about said crime ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * No * * * witness shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he is so compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, nor shall testimony so compelled be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against [the witness] * * * in any court. (Emphasis added)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he is compelled”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Vinegra · Korman 1971
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.