Gardner v. Broderick’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
394 federal appellate · 75 district · 519 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,324 later decisions (62 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Kastigar v. United States (1972), Baxter v. Palmigiano (1976)
394 federal appellate · 75 district · 519 state decisions — followed in 38 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
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Griffin v. California · Malloy v. Hogan · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Garrity v. State of New Jersey
Cited together with Garrity v. State of New Jersey · Uniformed Sanitation Men Association v. Commissioner of Sanitation of City of New York · Lefkowitz v. Turley · Lefkowitz v. Cunningham · Spevack v. Klein
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 1,324 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Answers may be compelled regardless of the privilege if there is immunity from federal and state use of the compelled testimony or its fruits in connection with a criminal prosecution against the person testifying.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“attempt, regardless of its ultimate effectiveness, to coerce a waiver of the immunity it confers on penalty of the loss of employment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
3 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.