marital communications privilege
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 291 U.S. 7 - Wolfle v. United States · 1934Most cited · 590 citing opinions
The basis of the immunity given to communications between husband and wife is the protection of marital confidences, regarded as so essential to the preservation of the marriage relationship as to outweigh the disadvantages to the administration of justice which the privilege entails
How often courts cite the case defining “marital communications privilege”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “marital communications privilege” — 587 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.