Gulden v. McCorkle’s Empirical Analysis
680 F.2d 1070 · 1982
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Wiley v. Doory (1994), Perez v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (2004)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Garrity v. State of New Jersey · Lefkowitz v. Turley · Gardner v. Broderick · Lefkowitz v. Cunningham · United States v. Mazurie
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Public employees may constitutionally be discharged for refusing to answer potentially incriminating questions concerning their official duties if they have not been required to surrender their constitutional immunity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no affirmative duty (if any such duty may ever be found) had devolved upon the employer to advise [the employees] that immunity was available.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the very fact that the testimony was compelled which prevents its use in subsequent proceedings, not any affirmative tender of immunity.”
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.