439 U.S. 128 (1978) Cited 6,383 times 27 Legal Analyses
Holding that the determinative question is "whether the person who claims the protection of the Amendment has a legitimate expectation of privacy in the invaded place"
390 U.S. 377 (1968) Cited 6,456 times 21 Legal Analyses
Holding that defendant's testimony to establish standing for purposes of claiming a Fourth Amendment violation "should not be admissible against him at trial on the question of guilt or innocence"
Holding that evidence on a motion to suppress is needed "only when the moving papers allege facts" that "enable the trial court to conclude that contested issues of fact exist"
308 U.S. 338 (1939) Cited 1,582 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding once a defendant proves a government search is illegal, the government may avail itself of an opportunity to demonstrate the information came from an independent source and was not a product of the tainted search
Holding corporate officers of company had reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to conversations made in the small corporate office over which they exercised full access
Holding that the fact that the police stopped the defendants' car, ordered defendants out of the car at gunpoint, and forced them to lie face down on the pavement did not turn the stop into an arrest
Holding that the admissibility of confessions in federal court is governed by 18 U.S.C. § 3501 rather than Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694