Spevack v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
358 federal appellate · 81 district · 713 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,523 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Gault (1967), Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)
358 federal appellate · 81 district · 713 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 484 · 47 U.S.C. § 308
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gideon v. Wainwright · Schmerber v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
Cited together with Garrity v. State of New Jersey · Gardner v. Broderick · Lefkowitz v. Turley · Malloy v. Hogan · Baxter v. Palmigiano
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 1,523 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the imposition of any sanction which makes assertion of the Fifth Amendment privilege 'costly.'”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . .1 would distinguish between a lawyer’s right to remain silent and that of a public employee who is asked questions specifically, directly, and narrowly relating to the performance of his official duties as distinguished from his beliefs or other matters that are not within the scope of the specific duties which he undertook faithfully to perform as part of his employment by the State. This Court has never held, for example, that a policeman may not be discharged for refusal in disciplinary proceedings to testify as to his conduct as a police officer. It is quite a different matter if the State seeks to use the testimony given under this lash in a subsequent criminal proceeding.” Id. at 519-20, 87 S.Ct. at 630, 17 L.Ed.2d at 580.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“lawyers also enjoy first-class citizenship,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.