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Supreme Court· 6/25/1980

Rawlings v. Kentucky

Citations

  • 448 U.S. 98
  • 100 S. Ct. 2556
  • 65 L. Ed. 2d 633
  • 1980 U.S. LEXIS 142

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that plaintiff did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in drugs stored in acquaintance’s purse
  • holding that the defendant had no legitimate expectation of privacy with respect to his property located in his companion’s purse
  • holding that the defendant did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in his companion's purse, and therefore, he lacked standing to challenge the search of the purse
  • holding that 45-minute interval favored Government where defendant was allowed to move around house freely and atmosphere was congenial
  • holding that petitioner could not challenge the search of another person’s purse because he lacked a reason- able expectation of privacy therein
  • holding that a defendant has the burden of showing a legitimate expectation of privacy in what the government seeks

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Rehnquist, Burger, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, Stewart, White, Marshall, Brennan

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1,708 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Other cases named Rawlings v. Kentucky

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