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immunity statute

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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”

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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.