Camara v. Municipal Court of the City and County of San Francisco

Decided June 5, 1967. Byron Raymond White delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 92 · 387 U.S. 523 (1967) · Cited 3,591 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–3.

“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.

• Frank v. Maryland · 359 U.S. 360 (1959)
• Schmerber v. California · 384 U.S. 757 (1966)
• Ker v. California · 374 U.S. 23 (1963)
• McDonald v. United States · 335 U.S. 451 (1948)
• Stoner v. California · 376 U.S. 483 (1964)
• Mapp v. Ohio · 367 U.S. 643 (1961)
• Johnson v. United States · 333 U.S. 10 (1948)
• Agnello v. United States · 269 U.S. 20 (1925)
• Wolf v. Colorado · 338 U.S. 25 (1949)
• Abel v. United States · 362 U.S. 217 (1960)
• United States v. Jeffers · 342 U.S. 48 (1951)
• Jacobson v. Massachusetts · 197 U.S. 11 (1905)
• Oklahoma Press Publishing Co. v. Walling · 327 U.S. 186 (1946)
• Chapman v. United States · 365 U.S. 610 (1961)
• District of Columbia v. Little · 339 U.S. 1 (1950)

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• Wyman v. James · 400 U.S. 309 (1971)
• Almeida-Sanchez v. United States · 413 U.S. 266 (1973)
• New Jersey v. T. L. O. · 469 U.S. 325 (1985)
• United States v. Martinez-Fuerte · 428 U.S. 543 (1976)
• Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc. · 436 U.S. 307 (1978)
• City of L. A. v. Patel · 576 U.S. 409 (2015)
• Donovan v. Dewey · 452 U.S. 594 (1981)
• Michigan v. Tyler · 436 U.S. 499 (1978)
• O'CONNOR v. Ortega · 480 U.S. 709 (1987)
• United States v. White · 401 U.S. 745 (1971)
• South Dakota v. Opperman · 428 U.S. 364 (1976)
• Cady v. Dombrowski · 413 U.S. 433 (1973)
• Delaware v. Prouse · 440 U.S. 648 (1979)
• Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · 489 U.S. 602 (1989)
• Zurcher v. Stanford Daily · 436 U.S. 547 (1978)
• Michigan v. Clifford · 464 U.S. 287 (1984)
• Griffin v. Wisconsin · 483 U.S. 868 (1987)
• National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab · 489 U.S. 656 (1989)
• New York v. Burger · 482 U.S. 691 (1987)
• G. M. Leasing Corp. v. United States · 429 U.S. 338 (1977)
• United States v. Ortiz · 422 U.S. 891 (1975)
• Grady v. North Carolina · 575 U.S. 306 (2015)
• Terry v. Ohio · 392 U.S. 1 (1968)
• Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton · 515 U.S. 646 (1995)
• Groh v. Ramirez · 540 U.S. 551 (2004)
• City of Indianapolis v. Edmond · 531 U.S. 32 (2000)
• Soldal v. Cook County · 506 U.S. 56 (1992)
• Donovan v. Lone Steer, Inc. · 464 U.S. 408 (1984)
• United States v. Leon · 468 U.S. 897 (1984)

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