United States v. Zanabria

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the government may introduce evidence of, and comment on, a defendant’s prearrest silence where such silence was not induced by government action
• holding no violation because the Fifth Amendment only protects against compelled statements and arrested defendant was not compelled to speak
• admitting pre-arrest silence as one component of substantive evidence of guilt
• use of defendant’s prearrest silence as proof of guilt, under the circumstances, did not violate the Fifth Amendment
• use of defendant’s prearrest silence as proof of guilt, under the circumstances, did not violate the Fifth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ronald Dean Combs v. Ralph Coyle
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-02-23· cited 380×
• State v. Easter
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-09-19· cited 264×
• State v. Lewis
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 175×
• State v. Moore
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1998-07-20· cited 156×
• State v. Leach
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2004-05-12· cited 147×
• United States v. Salinas
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-03-05· cited 130×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William A. OPLINGER, Defendant-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-07-14· cited 106×
• United States v. Jorge Andres Verduzco
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-06-29· cited 100×
• State v. Lee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-04-12· cited 92×
• United States v. Gavin Allan Paul Patrick Carlos Britton
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-05-29· cited 87×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward William THOMPSON, Defendant-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-04-29· cited 83×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Molina, M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-20· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Molina
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-09· cited 57×
• United States v. Frank C. Cihak Henry S. Landan Merced Cantu, Jr. I. Stephen Bloch Patricia Ruiz
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-04-14· cited 54×
• Baumia v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-05-23· cited 48×
• State v. Adams
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1998-07-15· cited 44×
• State v. Dreher
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1997-06-20· cited 43×
• United States v. Bohuchot
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-11-09· cited 41×
• United States v. Alameda
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 2002-08-28· cited 39×
• United States v. Potts
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-06-15· cited 34×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• United States v. Orange Jell Beechum
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-10-25· cited 1,202×
• United States v. Calverley
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-10-20· cited 705×
• United States v. Patricia Campbell Hearst
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-11-02· cited 284×
• United States v. Thomas Bentley-Smith and Edsil M. Elledge, Jr., A/K/A Ken Elledge
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-10-20· cited 159×
• Curtis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1995-02-27· cited 136×
• United States v. Donald Hooker and Donald Ray Reed
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-07-26· cited 54×