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← 82 So. 2d 657 - Sheiner v. State

82 So. 2d 657 - Sheiner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1955

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
October 2001
most recently cited

11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2001

11 state decisions

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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. § 2385

Relies on Hoffman v. United States · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Dennis v. United States · Brown v. Walker · Peters v. Hobby

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

  1. ““Was the refusal of Leo Sheiner, appellee, to answer certain questions propounded to him by a Sub-committee of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate on March 18, 1954, in New Orleans, Louisiana, regarding his membership in the Communist Party, and in other alleged subversive organizations, so fraudulent, unethical and unprofessional as to warrant his disbarment.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Sheiner
  2. “[C]ross-examination under oath [is] essential to due process because it is the means recognized by which we test the probity of the evidence and eliminate that which is trumped up or of doubtful veracity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 804 So. 2d 390 - Tobin v. Leland
  3. “a right to take refuge under the Fifth Amendment if his answer would tend to incriminate him.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 710 So. 2d 13 - State v. Spiegel

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.