Kirk v. Louisiana

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the Fourth Amendment requires “probable cause plus exigent circumstances in order to make a lawful entry into a home”
• holding that, to enter a home, “police officers need either a warrant or probable cause plus exigent circumstances, in order to make lawful entry into a home.”
• stating that to make a lawful entry into a house, the police “need either a warrant or probable cause plus exigent circumstances[.]”
• emphasizing that “the Fourth Amendment has drawn a firm line at the entrance to the house,” such that “police officers need either a warrant or probable cause plus exigent circumstances in order to make a lawful entry into a home”
• reversing state court ruling that warrantless entry, arrest, and search did not violate the Fourth Amendment because there had been probable cause to arrest
• criticizing as erroneous a decision finding no Fourth Amendment violation for warrantless entry and arrest based on probable cause “[w]ithout deciding whether exigent circumstances had been present”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).