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Supreme Court· 6/13/1988

Michigan v. Chesternut

Citations

  • 486 U.S. 567
  • 108 S. Ct. 1975
  • 100 L. Ed. 2d 565
  • 1988 U.S. LEXIS 2582
  • 56 U.S.L.W. 4558

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that physical touching by officers is a factor indicating that a seizure has occurred
  • noting that whether a seizure occurred may depend on the setting of the police encounter
  • stating that no bright-line rule applicable to all investigatory pursuits can be fashioned
  • noting that “[t]he Court has since embraced this test”
  • finding significant the lack of sirens and flashers, a command to halt, the display of weapons, and the operation of the police car in an \aggressive manner\ as relevant to the seizure issue
  • finding no seizure of pedestrian when there was no evidence that police “operated the car in an aggressive manner to block respondent’s course or otherwise control the direction or speed of his movement”

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Judges: Blackmun, Kennedy, Scalia

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Cites

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Other cases named Michigan v. Chesternut

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