People v. Reali’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The record establishes that none of [Ms. Reali’s immunized] testimony influenced this witness.... [T]he only feature that the witness relied upon in identifying [Ms. Reali] as the purchaser of the mask was her physical appearance and, possibly, the sound of her voice.... [T]he privilege against self-incrimination does not extend to non-testimonial actions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 90 F. App'x 319 - Reali v. Abbot

2. “is not limited to a negation of taint; rather, it imposes on the prosecution the affirmative duty to prove that the evidence it proposes to use is derived from a legitimate source wholly independent of the compelled testimony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Stevenson

3. “[slecond, and perhaps more significant, defendant here made a detailed, non-immunized statement describing her part in the killing before giving any immunized testimony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Stevenson