Alabama v. Vanessa Rose White
Decided June 11, 1990. Byron Raymond White delivered the opinion of the Court.
Docket 89-789 · 496 U.S. 325 (1990) · Cited 3,282 times
Holding
The anonymous tip, as corroborated by independent police work, exhibited sufficient indicia of reliability to provide reasonable suspicion to make the investigatory stop.
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How the Justices voted
Decided 6–3.
Majority · 6
- Byron Raymond White · delivered the opinion of the Court
- Anthony McLeod Kennedy
- Antonin Scalia
- Harry Andrew Blackmun
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- William Hubbs Rehnquist
Dissenting · 3
- John Paul Stevens · filed a dissenting opinion
- Thurgood Marshall
- William Joseph Brennan Jr.
“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. Source: the Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.), Washington University.
Precedents cited
Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.
- Illinois v. Gates · 462 U.S. 213 (1983)
- Terry v. Ohio · 392 U.S. 1 (1968)
- Adams v. Williams · 407 U.S. 143 (1972)
- Aguilar v. Texas · 378 U.S. 108 (1964)
- Spinelli v. United States · 393 U.S. 410 (1969)
- Carroll v. United States · 267 U.S. 132 (1925)
- United States v. Cortez · 449 U.S. 411 (1981)
- United States v. Sokolow · 490 U.S. 1 (1989)
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado · 466 U.S. 210 (1984)
Cited by
Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.
- Prado Navarette v. California · 572 U.S. 393 (2014)
- Florida v. JL · 529 U.S. 266 (2000)
- Kansas v. Glover · 589 U.S. 376 (2020)
- Ornelas v. United States · 517 U.S. 690 (1996)
- Idaho v. Wright · 497 U.S. 805 (1990)
- Hudson v. Michigan · 547 U.S. 586 (2006)
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