Ex Parte Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Ex Parte Werblud (1976), Whitmore v. State (1978)
25 state decisions
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 Boyd v. United States · Kastigar v. United States · Hoffman v. United States · Maness v. Meyers · United States v. United States Coin & Currency
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`perfectly clear, from a careful consideration of all the circumstances in the case, that the witness is mistaken, and that the answer[s] cannot possibly have such tendency' to incriminate.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Russo · In Re Verbois“calls for an answer that might reasonably present a hazard of self-incrimination to the [parent], he may refuse to answer upon the ground of the privilege.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Verbois
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.