Brigham City, Utah v. Charles W. Stuart et al.

Decided May 22, 2006. John Glover Roberts Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 05-502 · 547 U.S. 398 (2006) · Cited 2,237 times

Holding

Police may enter a home without a warrant when they have an objectively reasonable basis for believing that an occupant is seri ously injured or imminently threatened with such injury.

The Court’s statement of the holding, from the opinion’s syllabus. The syllabus is prepared by the Reporter of Decisions and is not part of the opinion of the Court — read the official opinion for authority.

How the Justices voted

Decided 8–1.

“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.

• Welsh v. Wisconsin · 466 U.S. 740 (1984)
• Mincey v. Arizona · 437 U.S. 385 (1978)
• City of Indianapolis v. Edmond · 531 U.S. 32 (2000)
• Michigan v. Tyler · 436 U.S. 499 (1978)
• Graham v. Connor · 490 U.S. 386 (1989)
• Katz v. United States · 389 U.S. 347 (1967)
• Payton v. New York · 445 U.S. 573 (1980)
• Whren v. United States · 517 U.S. 806 (1996)
• Michigan v. Long · 463 U.S. 1032 (1983)
• Ker v. California · 374 U.S. 23 (1963)
• Scott v. United States · 436 U.S. 128 (1978)
• United States v. Santana · 427 U.S. 38 (1976)
• Groh v. Ramirez · 540 U.S. 551 (2004)
• Florida v. Wells · 495 U.S. 1 (1990)
• Bond v. United States · 529 U.S. 334 (2000)
• Flippo v. West Virginia · 528 U.S. 11 (1999)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Michigan v. Fisher · 558 U.S. 45 (2009)
• Kentucky v. King · 563 U.S. 452 (2011)
• Missouri v. McNeely · 569 U.S. 141 (2013)
• Lange v. California · 594 U.S. 295 (2021)
• Caniglia v. Strom · 593 U.S. 194 (2021)
• Birchfield v. N. Dakota. William Robert Bernard · 579 U.S. 438 (2016)
• City of L. A. v. Patel · 576 U.S. 409 (2015)
• Fernandez v. California · 571 U.S. 292 (2014)
• Mitchell v. Wisconsin · 588 U.S. 840 (2019)
• District of Columbia v. Heller · 554 U.S. 570 (2008)
• Ziglar v. Abbasi · 582 U.S. 120 (2017)
• Rodriguez v. United States · 575 U.S. 348 (2015)
• Florida v. Jardines · 569 U.S. 1 (2013)
• City and County of San Francisco v. Sheehan · 575 U.S. 600 (2015)
• Collins v. Virginia · 584 U.S. 586 (2018)
• Washington v. Recuenco · 548 U.S. 212 (2006)
• Ryburn v. Huff · 565 U.S. 469 (2012)
• McDonald v. City of Chicago · 561 U.S. 742 (2010)
• Kansas v. Marsh · 548 U.S. 163 (2006)
• Barnes v. Felix · 605 U.S. 73 (2025)

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