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Supreme Court· 6/30/1980

Reid v. Georgia

Citations

  • 448 U.S. 438
  • 100 S. Ct. 2752
  • 65 L. Ed. 2d 890
  • 1980 U.S. LEXIS 148

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that defendant’s arrival from “source city” was an insufficient foundation for reasonable suspicion and stating the “circumstances describe a very large category of presumably innocent travelers”
  • holding that defendant's arrival from \source city\ was an insufficient foundation for reasonable suspicion and stating the \circumstances describe a very large category of presumably innocent travelers\
  • recognizing that there may be circumstances in which lawful conduct might justify a suspicion of criminal activity
  • holding that “there could, of course, be circumstances in which wholly lawful conduct might justify the suspicion that criminal activity was afoot”
  • noting that “circumstances describ[ing] a very large category of presumably innocent travelers” are usually insufficient to justify seizure
  • holding no reasonable suspicion where “circumstances describe a very large category of presumably innocent travelers.”

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Judges: Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist

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