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inherently coercive

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 322 U.S. 143 - Ashcraft v. State of Tennessee · 1944Most cited · 1,245 citing opinions

a situation so inherently coercive that its very existence is irreconcilable with the possession of mental freedom by a lone suspect against whom its full coercive force is brought to bear

How often courts cite the case defining “inherently coercive”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “inherently coercive” — 1,245 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.