United States v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.2d 563 · 1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2023
3 federal appellate ·
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. § 6001 · 18 U.S.C. § 6002 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1826
Relies on United States v. Calandra · Kastigar v. United States · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · United States v. Washington · United States v. Doss
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.
“leaves the witness ... in substantially the same position as if the witness had claimed the Fifth Amendment privilege.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is coextensive with the privilege and suffices to supplant it.”
1 later decision 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.