79 Md. App. 575 - Kramer v. Levitt’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 32 state decisions

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

1. “against being forced to make incriminating disclosures at any stage of the proceeding if they could not be compelled to make such disclosures as a witness at trial.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 238 Md. App. 509 - Heffington v. Moser · Wilson v. Misko

2. “The ‘cost’ to a defendant of treating his claim of privilege in his answer as an admission is at least that plaintiff is excused from presenting proof of his averment and defendant is subjected without more, to an adverse judgment on that issue. We think Baxter indi cates that this is too great a cost.-... It seems clear that there cannot be a general rule that a claim of privilege as to an allegation is to be treated as an admission of it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Missouri Board of Nursing Administrators

3. “We adopt this reasoning and hold that when a defendant in a civil action pleads his privilege against self-incrimination in response to discovery requests, he is prohibited from testifying at trial on matters pertaining to these requests. [Citations omitted.] He is not precluded, however, from producing independent witnesses to prove any defenses raised if he complies with the appropriate discovery rules.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilson v. Misko