representative capacity records
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
Books and records kept 'in a representative rather than in a personal capacity cannot be the subject of the personal privilege against self-incrimination, even though production of the papers might tend to incriminate (their keeper) personally.
How often courts cite the case defining “representative capacity records”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “representative capacity records” — 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.