United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan et al. (plamondon et al., Real Parties in Interest)

Decided June 19, 1972. Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 70-153 · 407 U.S. 297 (1972) · Cited 1,683 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 8–0.

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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.

• Katz v. United States · 389 U.S. 347 (1967)
• Chimel v. California · 395 U.S. 752 (1969)
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire · 403 U.S. 443 (1971)
• Alderman v. United States · 394 U.S. 165 (1969)
• Berger v. New York · 388 U.S. 41 (1967)
• Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · 251 U.S. 385 (1920)
• United States v. Rabinowitz · 339 U.S. 56 (1950)
• McDonald v. United States · 335 U.S. 451 (1948)
• Stanford v. Texas · 379 U.S. 476 (1965)
• United States v. Robel · 389 U.S. 258 (1967)
• Kremen v. United States · 353 U.S. 346 (1957)
• Duncan v. Kahanamoku · 327 U.S. 304 (1946)
• Miranda v. Arizona · 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
• Terry v. Ohio · 392 U.S. 1 (1968)
• Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · 403 U.S. 388 (1971)
• 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)
• Boyd v. United States · 116 U.S. 616 (1886)
• Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · 387 U.S. 523 (1967)
• Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · 297 U.S. 288 (1936)
• Powell v. McCormack · 395 U.S. 486 (1969)
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
• Silverman v. United States · 365 U.S. 505 (1961)
• United States v. Jeffers · 342 U.S. 48 (1951)
• Baggett v. Bullitt · 377 U.S. 360 (1964)
• New York Times Co. v. United States · 403 U.S. 713 (1971)
• Whitney v. California · 274 U.S. 357 (1927)
• Cox v. New Hampshire · 312 U.S. 569 (1941)
• De Jonge v. Oregon · 299 U.S. 353 (1937)

Cited by

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

• Mitchell v. Forsyth · 472 U.S. 511 (1985)
• Dalia v. United States · 441 U.S. 238 (1979)
• California Bankers Assn. v. Shultz · 416 U.S. 21 (1974)
• Clapper v. Amnesty International USA · 568 U.S. 398 (2013)
• Arkansas v. Sanders · 442 U.S. 753 (1979)
• California v. Ciraolo · 476 U.S. 207 (1986)
• United States v. Montoya De Hernandez · 473 U.S. 531 (1985)
• Malley v. Briggs · 475 U.S. 335 (1986)
• Gerstein v. Pugh · 420 U.S. 103 (1975)
• Texas v. Brown · 460 U.S. 730 (1983)
• Ziglar v. Abbasi · 582 U.S. 120 (2017)
• Birchfield v. N. Dakota. William Robert Bernard · 579 U.S. 438 (2016)
• Greer v. Spock · 424 U.S. 828 (1976)
• Illinois v. Andreas · 463 U.S. 765 (1983)
• Gelbard v. United States · 408 U.S. 41 (1972)
• Fernandez v. California · 571 U.S. 292 (2014)
• United States v. Leon · 468 U.S. 897 (1984)
• United States v. Ross · 456 U.S. 798 (1982)
• United States v. Watson · 423 U.S. 411 (1976)
• United States v. Martinez-Fuerte · 428 U.S. 543 (1976)
• Welsh v. Wisconsin · 466 U.S. 740 (1984)
• Almeida-Sanchez v. United States · 413 U.S. 266 (1973)
• United States v. Miller · 425 U.S. 435 (1976)
• O'CONNOR v. Ortega · 480 U.S. 709 (1987)
• Dow Chemical Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Administrator · 476 U.S. 227 (1986)
• Florida v. White · 526 U.S. 559 (1999)
• Illinois v. Gates · 462 U.S. 213 (1983)
• Anderson v. Creighton · 483 U.S. 635 (1987)
• Payton v. New York · 445 U.S. 573 (1980)
• Delaware v. Prouse · 440 U.S. 648 (1979)

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