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McNabb doctrine

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Definitions from Case Law

From 322 U.S. 65 - United States v. Mitchell · 1944Most cited · 1,091 citing opinions

Inexcusable detention for the purpose of illegally extracting evidence from an accused, and the successful extraction of such inculpatory statements by continuous questioning for many hours under psychological pressure, were the decisive features in the McNabb case which led us to rule that a conviction on such evidence could not stand.

How often courts cite the case defining “McNabb doctrine”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “McNabb doctrine” — 1,091 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.