Katz v. United States

Holding that failure to recognize a reasonable expectation of privacy in a telephone booth would "ignore the vital role that the public telephone has come to play in private communication"

United States v. Place

Holding 90-minute detention of luggage unreasonable based on nature of interference with person's travels and lack of diligence of police

United States v. Jacobsen

Holding that a legal seizure of a package became illegal when officers conducted a field test on it because the test "affect[ed] respondents' possessory interests ... by destroying a quantity of the powder [thereby] convert[ing] what had been only a temporary deprivation of possessory interests into a permanent one"

California v. Acevedo

Holding the Fourth Amendment does not preclude a warrantless search of a container in an automobile where there is probable cause to believe that it contains contraband

Chambers v. Maroney

Holding that seizing and holding a car on probable cause until a search warrant is obtained is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment

Murray v. United States

Holding that this determination is an issue of fact to be determined by the district court in the first instance

United States v. Chadwick

Holding that evidence obtained from search conducted ninety minutes after arrest must be suppressed because "no exigency" justified the search as incident to the arrest

Johnson v. United States

Holding as invalid a search of defendant's home which “was demanded under color of office” even though the government officials did not possess a search warrant

Carroll v. United States

Holding “contraband goods concealed and illegally transported in an automobile or other vehicle may be searched for without a warrant”

Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court

Explaining the "rule requiring a court exercising inferior jurisdiction to follow the decisions of a court exercising a higher jurisdiction"

Rule 8.500 - Petition for review