Fifth Amendment self-incrimination
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 244 U.S. 362 - Mason v. United States · 1917Most cited · 579 citing opinions
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The constitutional protection against self-incrimination 'is confined to real danger, and does not extend to remote possibilities out of the ordinary course of law.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Fifth Amendment self-incrimination”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Fifth Amendment self-incrimination” — 697 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1913–1917
- 1913·227 U.S. 592 - William Ensign v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania No 123 Charles a Ensign[p3]· cited 121×ORIGINAL
This amendment is not obligatory upon the governments of the several states or their judicial establishments, and regulates the procedure of the Federal courts only.
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