immunity statute
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 382 U.S. 70 - Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board · 1966Most cited · 768 citing opinions
self-incrimination
no (immunity) statute which leaves the party or witness subject to prosecution after he answers the criminating question put to him, can have the effect of supplanting the privilege * * *, and that such a statute is valid only if it supplies 'a complete protection from all the perils against which the constitutional prohibition was designed to guard * * *' by affording 'absolute immunity against future prosecution for the offence to which the question relates.
How often courts cite the case defining “immunity statute”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “immunity statute” — 764 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case 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.