Self-incrimination privilege
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 221 U.S. 361 - Wilson v. United States · 1911Most cited · 2,138 citing opinions
corporate books
The appellant held the corporate books subject to the corporate duty. If the corporation were guilty of misconduct, he could not withhold its books to save it; and if he were implicated in the violations of law, he could not withhold the books to protect himself from the effect of their disclosures. The reserved power of visitation would seriously be embarrassed, if not wholly defeated in its effective exercise, if guilty officers could refuse inspection of the records and papers of the corporation. No personal privilege to which they are entitled requires such a conclusion.
How often courts cite the case defining “Self-incrimination privilege”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Self-incrimination privilege” — 2,131 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.