real danger
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 340 U.S. 367 - Rogers v. United States · 1951Most cited · 2,175 citing opinions
self-incrimination
As to each question to which a claim of privilege is directed, the court must determine whether the answer to that particular question would subject the witness to a 'real danger' of further crimination.
How often courts cite the case defining “real danger”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “real danger” — 2,172 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.