65 Cited authorities

  1. Illinois v. Gates

    462 U.S. 213 (1983)   Cited 18,919 times   28 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a warrant may issue only when probable cause exists under the "totality-of-the-circumstances"
  2. Florida v. J. L.

    529 U.S. 266 (2000)   Cited 2,231 times   17 Legal Analyses
    Holding an anonymous tip that a young black man in a plaid shirt was carrying a gun insufficient to create reasonable suspicion
  3. Alabama v. White

    496 U.S. 325 (1990)   Cited 3,403 times   11 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "independent corroboration by the police" of an informant's statements bolsters their credibility
  4. Dunaway v. New York

    442 U.S. 200 (1979)   Cited 3,722 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that seizing and transporting a suspect to a police station for interrogation without probable cause violated the Fourth Amendment
  5. Mapp v. Ohio

    367 U.S. 643 (1961)   Cited 8,289 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the exclusionary rule under the Fourth Amendment applies to the States, and overruling the contrary rule of Wolf v. Colorado , 338 U.S. 25, 69 S.Ct. 1359, 93 L.Ed. 1782, after considering and rejecting "the current validity of the factual grounds upon which Wolf was based"
  6. Spinelli v. United States

    393 U.S. 410 (1969)   Cited 5,505 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the "assertion of police suspicion" cannot save an otherwise insufficient warrant affidavit
  7. Aguilar v. Texas

    378 U.S. 108 (1964)   Cited 6,179 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding affidavit insufficient to support a probable cause determination when it stated that “[a]ffiants have received reliable information from a credible person and do believe” heroin to be in the suspect's home
  8. Texas v. Cobb

    532 U.S. 162 (2001)   Cited 580 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a defendant's statements regarding uncharged offenses, without his attorney present, were admissible notwithstanding his right to counsel on other charged offenses
  9. Draper v. United States

    358 U.S. 307 (1959)   Cited 2,689 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that hearsay may be considered in determining the existence of probable cause, even if it would not be admissible in a criminal trial
  10. People v. De Bour

    40 N.Y.2d 210 (N.Y. 1976)   Cited 2,269 times   6 Legal Analyses
    In People v. LaPene, 352 N.E.2d 562 (N.Y. 1976), the New York Court of Appeals laid out a sliding scale of justifiable police intrusion, short of probable cause to arrest, which specified three distinct levels of intrusion correlating the allowable intensity of police conduct to the nature and weight of the facts precipitating the intrusion.