Delaware v. Prouse

Decided March 27, 1979. Byron Raymond White delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 77-1571 · 440 U.S. 648 (1979) · Cited 5,549 times

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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.

• United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · 422 U.S. 873 (1975)
• United States v. Martinez-Fuerte · 428 U.S. 543 (1976)
• Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc. · 436 U.S. 307 (1978)
• Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · 387 U.S. 523 (1967)
• Terry v. Ohio · 392 U.S. 1 (1968)
• United States v. Ortiz · 422 U.S. 891 (1975)
• Cady v. Dombrowski · 413 U.S. 433 (1973)
• Almeida-Sanchez v. United States · 413 U.S. 266 (1973)
• Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. · 433 U.S. 562 (1977)
• Mapp v. Ohio · 367 U.S. 643 (1961)
• Carroll v. United States · 267 U.S. 132 (1925)
• Beck v. Ohio · 379 U.S. 89 (1964)
• Adams v. Williams · 407 U.S. 143 (1972)
• Gerstein v. Pugh · 420 U.S. 103 (1975)
• Mincey v. Arizona · 437 U.S. 385 (1978)
• Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · 387 U.S. 294 (1967)
• Ker v. California · 374 U.S. 23 (1963)
• United States v. Watson · 423 U.S. 411 (1976)
• McDonald v. United States · 335 U.S. 451 (1948)
• United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · 407 U.S. 297 (1972)
• Scott v. United States · 436 U.S. 128 (1978)
• United States v. Santana · 427 U.S. 38 (1976)
• See v. City of Seattle · 387 U.S. 541 (1967)
• United States v. Biswell · 406 U.S. 311 (1972)
• Ex Parte Virginia · 100 U.S. 339 (1880)
• McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago · 394 U.S. 802 (1969)
• Colonnade Catering Corp. v. United States · 397 U.S. 72 (1970)
• United States v. Ramsey · 431 U.S. 606 (1977)
• Palmore v. United States · 411 U.S. 389 (1973)
• Fox Film Corp. v. Muller · 296 U.S. 207 (1935)

Cited by

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

• United States v. Villamonte-Marquez · 462 U.S. 579 (1983)
• Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz · 496 U.S. 444 (1990)
• City of Indianapolis v. Edmond · 531 U.S. 32 (2000)
• New York v. Class · 475 U.S. 106 (1986)
• Whren v. United States · 517 U.S. 806 (1996)
• Brendlin v. California · 551 U.S. 249 (2007)
• United States v. Mendenhall · 446 U.S. 544 (1980)
• Kansas v. Glover · 589 U.S. 376 (2020)
• Michigan v. Long · 463 U.S. 1032 (1983)
• Rodriguez v. United States · 575 U.S. 348 (2015)
• Brown v. Texas · 443 U.S. 47 (1979)
• South Dakota v. Neville · 459 U.S. 553 (1983)
• National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab · 489 U.S. 656 (1989)
• Texas v. Brown · 460 U.S. 730 (1983)
• Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · 489 U.S. 602 (1989)
• Colorado v. Bertine · 479 U.S. 367 (1987)
• Maryland v. Wilson · 519 U.S. 408 (1997)
• Heffernan v. City of Paterson · 578 U.S. 266 (2016)
• United States v. Cortez · 449 U.S. 411 (1981)
• Tennessee v. Garner · 471 U.S. 1 (1985)
• Dunaway v. New York · 442 U.S. 200 (1979)
• New Jersey v. T. L. O. · 469 U.S. 325 (1985)
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado · 466 U.S. 210 (1984)
• Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton · 515 U.S. 646 (1995)
• City of Mesquite v. Aladdin's Castle, Inc. · 455 U.S. 283 (1982)
• Samson v. California · 547 U.S. 843 (2006)
• Illinois v. Gates · 462 U.S. 213 (1983)
• Payton v. New York · 445 U.S. 573 (1980)
• Baker v. McCollan · 443 U.S. 137 (1979)
• Berkemer v. McCarty · 468 U.S. 420 (1984)

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