Commonwealth v. Bykowski’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 4411 · 26 U.S.C. § 4412 · 26 U.S.C. § 6107 · 26 U.S.C. § 7203
Relies on Malloy v. Hogan · Marchetti v. United States · Grosso v. United States · Lewis v. United States · Commonwealth v. Bykowski
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * -yye therefore believe that if a federal prosecution based upon violations of sections 4411 and 4412 (and evidence seized to prove these violations) would infringe the accused’s privilege against self-incrimination and if this privilege applies to the states, then a state prosecution based upon the same evidence seized by federal officers would equally violate that privilege. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. GERARDO““Whether this evidence is used in state or federal court, the evil is identical — an accused’s failure to register and pay the tax, as well as evidence seized to prove this failure, becomes the basis of a criminal prosecution violative of the fifth amendment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boiardo
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.