Asherman v. Meachum’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 978 · 1992
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Hilton Davis Chemical Co. v. Warner-Jenkinson Co. (1995), United States v. Padilla (2005)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 28 U.S.C. § 1254 · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Baxter v. Palmigiano · Garrity v. State of New Jersey · Minnesota v. Murphy · Lefkowitz v. Turley · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consequence is imposed for failure to answer a relevant inquiry and not for refusal to give up a constitutional right.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a person cannot be compelled to be a witness against himself in a criminal proceeding nor forced 'to answer official questions put to him in any other proceeding, civil or criminal, formal or informal, where the answers might incriminate him in future criminal proceedings.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'were discharged not merely for refusal to account for their conduct as employees of the city. They were dismissed for invoking and refusing to waive their constitutional right against self-incrimination.'”
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.