State v. Showalter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The resulting privilege against compulsory self-incrimination fulfills the 7 essential role in our adversarial justice system of ensuring the State achieves criminal convictions by its own efforts, not by the forced disclosures of the accused.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Harris

2. “can invoke a blanket privilege not to testify at their own trial, a compelled witness may only assert the privilege on a question-by-question basis and must establish a legitimate risk of incrimination to justify silence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Adams

3. “could be used in a criminal prosecution or could lead to other evidence that might be so used.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Adams