Hoover v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
678 F.2d 578 · 1982
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably United States v. Veal (1998), Witter v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1997)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Baxter v. Palmigiano · Garrity v. State of New Jersey · Lefkowitz v. Turley · Gardner v. Broderick · United States v. Kordel
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a free choice to admit, deny, or refuse to answer. This is full vindication of the [F]ifth [A]mendment privilege against self-incrimination.”
2 later decisions 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.