Minnesota v. Murphy

Decided February 22, 1984. Byron Raymond White delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 82-827 · 465 U.S. 420 (1984) · Cited 1,569 times

Holding

The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments did not prohibit the introduction into evidence of respondent's admissions to the probation officer in respondent's subsequent murder prosecution.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 6–3.

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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.

• Garrity v. New Jersey · 385 U.S. 493 (1967)
• Lefkowitz v. Turley · 414 U.S. 70 (1973)
• Garner v. United States · 424 U.S. 648 (1976)
• United States v. Washington · 431 U.S. 181 (1977)
• Miranda v. Arizona · 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
• MacKey v. United States · 401 U.S. 667 (1971)
• United States v. Kordel · 397 U.S. 1 (1970)
• Gardner v. Broderick · 392 U.S. 273 (1968)
• Fare v. Michael C. · 442 U.S. 707 (1979)
• Marchetti v. United States · 390 U.S. 39 (1968)
• Grosso v. United States · 390 U.S. 62 (1968)
• Malloy v. Hogan · 378 U.S. 1 (1964)
• Oregon v. Mathiason · 429 U.S. 492 (1977)
• Lisenba v. California · 314 U.S. 219 (1942)
• Roberts v. United States · 445 U.S. 552 (1980)
• United States v. Mandujano · 425 U.S. 564 (1976)
• Uniformed Sanitation Men Ass'n v. Commissioner of Sanitation of New York · 392 U.S. 280 (1968)
• United States v. Monia · 317 U.S. 424 (1943)
• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · 412 U.S. 218 (1973)
• Gagnon v. Scarpelli · 411 U.S. 778 (1973)
• Baxter v. Palmigiano · 425 U.S. 308 (1976)
• Jones v. Cunningham · 371 U.S. 236 (1963)
• Michigan v. Tucker · 417 U.S. 433 (1974)
• Beckwith v. United States · 425 U.S. 341 (1976)
• Rogers v. United States · 340 U.S. 367 (1951)
• Maness v. Meyers · 419 U.S. 449 (1975)
• Lefkowitz v. Cunningham · 431 U.S. 801 (1977)
• United States Ex Rel. Vajtauer v. Commissioner of Immigration · 273 U.S. 103 (1927)
• Johnson v. Zerbst · 304 U.S. 458 (1938)
• Escobedo v. Illinois · 378 U.S. 478 (1964)

Cited by

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

• Salinas v. Texas · 570 U.S. 178 (2013)
• McKune v. Lile · 536 U.S. 24 (2002)
• Selective Service System v. Minnesota Public Interest Research Group · 468 U.S. 841 (1984)
• Chavez v. Martinez · 538 U.S. 760 (2003)
• Allen v. Illinois · 478 U.S. 364 (1986)
• Berkemer v. McCarty · 468 U.S. 420 (1984)
• Stansbury v. California · 511 U.S. 318 (1994)
• United States v. Knights · 534 U.S. 112 (2001)
• New York v. Quarles · 467 U.S. 649 (1984)
• United States v. Patane · 542 U.S. 630 (2004)
• Pennsylvania Bd. of Probation and Parole v. Scott · 524 U.S. 357 (1998)
• Vega v. Tekoh · 597 U.S. 134 (2022)

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