418 U.S. 539 (1974) Cited 19,245 times 5 Legal Analyses
Holding that declaratory judgment as a predicate to a damages award would not be barred, but that a civil rights claim that would affect the duration of incarceration is foreclosed by Preiser
553 U.S. 164 (2008) Cited 1,035 times 16 Legal Analyses
Holding that an officer's violation of state law arrest rules did not render an arrest unconstitutional because "it is not the province of the Fourth Amendment to enforce state law"
428 U.S. 364 (1976) Cited 3,013 times 11 Legal Analyses
Holding that an inventory search was constitutionally permissible in part because there was "no suggestion" that the search "was a pretext concealing an investigatory police motive"
136 S. Ct. 2056 (2016) Cited 632 times 15 Legal Analyses
Holding that the exclusionary rule covers both "the primary evidence obtained as a direct result of an illegal search or seizure," and "evidence later discovered and found to be derivative of an illegality"
Holding that the North Carolina legislature's "rush" to enact election laws in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder , 570 U.S. 529, 133 S.Ct. 2612, 186 L.Ed.2d 651, indicated that the legislature acted with invidious intent, as, prior to Shelby County , those laws likely would not have survived preclearance by the Department of Justice
Holding that the Commonwealth could not rely on the statutory presumption since the evidence showed that the defendant did not receive the notice mailed to him by the DMV