Block v. Consino’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 1165 · 1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably United States v. Weiner (1978), United States v. Montoya (1995)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 6002
Relies on Kastigar v. United States · Bruce v. United States · United States v. Catalano · United States v. Seiffert
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.
“Whenever a witness refuses, on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or provide other information in a proceeding before or ancillary to— (1) a court or grand jury of the United States, (2) an agency of the United States, or (3) either House of Congress, a joint committee of the two Houses, or a committee or a subcommittee of either House, and the person presiding over the proceeding communicates to the witness an order issued under this part, the witness may not refuse to comply with the order on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination; but no testimony or other information compelled under the order (or any information directly or indirectly derived from such testimony or other information) may be used against the witness in any criminal case, except a prosecution for perjury, giving a false statement, or otherwise failing to comply with the order.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“heavy burden placed upon the Government (in a criminal proceeding) to demonstrate that the evidence was derived from a legitimate source independent of the compelled testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any statute which fairly provides use and derivative use immunity is sufficient under the Fifth Amendment”
1 later decision 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.