United States v. Robert J. Scios A/K/A Robert Schwartz

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that witness' decision to testify, made solely to avoid being jailed for contempt, is not a matter of free will
• holding that witness’ decision to testify, made solely to avoid being jailed for contempt, is not a matter of free will

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

38 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,405 Joe L. Smallwood v. Pearl Brewing Company, Southdown, Inc., Zapata Norness, Inc., Albert J. Rangeand D. Doyle Mize
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-02-19· cited 238×
• Garza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-05-17· cited 220×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-02-03· cited 152×
• United States v. Judah Robert Lyons
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-04-26· cited 130×
• People v. Briggs
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1985-11-18· cited 111×
• United States v. Jesus Ramirez-Sandoval
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-04-17· cited 102×
• United States v. Dennis Leonardi and Steven Jay Berland
  Second Circuit· 1980-04-17· cited 98×
• United States v. Bryan Roberts, A/K/A Sailor Roberts
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-06-16· cited 94×
• United States v. James Lynn Hooton
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-11-30· cited 88×
• Reed Wayne Hamilton v. Crispus Nix, Warden, and Attorney General of the State of Iowa
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-01-12· cited 70×
• State v. Warren
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2007-02-22· cited 67×
• United States v. German Fidel Cueto
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-02-14· cited 61×
• Neary v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-05-15· cited 61×
• United States v. James L. Issacs
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-06-20· cited 59×
• United States v. Nicodemo Scarfo, A/K/A Nicholas Scarfo, A/K/A Nicholas Scarto. Appeal of Nicodemo Scarfo
  Third Circuit· 1982-07-22· cited 56×
• Marano v. Holland
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-02-01· cited 44×
• United States v. Gerrold E. Stevens
  Tenth Circuit· 1980-02-27· cited 38×
• United States v. Roland Wesley Weber
  First Circuit· 1981-12-28· cited 34×
• State v. Bravo
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-09-20· cited 18×
• Patterson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1982-05-19· cited 17×

Cites

92 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• Brown v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-26· cited 4,589×
• Chambers v. Maroney
  Supreme Court· 1970-10-12· cited 4,391×
• Stone v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 4,303×
• Mincey v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 3,849×
• United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 3,736×
• United States v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-11· cited 3,538×
• United States v. Calandra
  Supreme Court· 1974-01-08· cited 3,415×
• Ker v. California
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-10· cited 3,146×
• United States v. Chadwick
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-21· cited 2,561×
• Elkins v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-27· cited 2,501×
• Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1920-03-01· cited 2,373×
• United States v. Rabinowitz
  Supreme Court· 1950-02-20· cited 2,080×
• Nardone v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1939-12-11· cited 1,927×
• United States v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 1,806×
• Harris v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-03-05· cited 1,768×
• United States v. Janis
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 1,453×