Kuklis v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
428 F.2d 608 · 1970
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Birdsell v. United States · Skogen v. The Dow Chemical Company · Mullican v. United States · Joseph E. Thomas v. Ruth A. Martin Hogan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 317.71 is in derogation of the common law and should be strictly construed in the sense that no situation should be held within its operation to which the legislature did not clearly intend to accord the privilege. On the other hand, the statute being in part at least designed to protect the constitutional right against self incrimination, and to facilitate the ascertainment of the cause of accident, it should not be so strictly construed as to defeat the legislative purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lane
How this case has been treated — in progress
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