compulsion by torture
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 297 U.S. 278 - Brown v. State of Mississippi · 1936Most cited · 1,826 citing opinions
Compulsion by torture to extort a confession is a different matter [from the compulsion of the processes of justice by which the accused may be called as a witness and required to testify]
How often courts cite the case defining “compulsion by torture”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “compulsion by torture” — 1,826 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.