State v. Cohen

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 does not bar a search and seizure, even an arbitrary one, effected by a private party on his own initiative
• When determining whether a private citizen’s search or seizure constituted state action, a court should consider the totality of the circumstances and the following factors: 1
• The Fourth Amendment does not bar a search or seizure by a private party.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Brockman
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-02-22· cited 66×
• State v. Jedd
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2001-09-14· cited 21×
• Town of Mount Pleasant v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-04-26· cited 13×
• State v. Douglas
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-05-21· cited 7×
• State v. Brockman
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-11-17· cited 6×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• United States v. Jacobsen
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-02· cited 3,218×
• Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn.
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-21· cited 2,560×
• Turner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-01-26· cited 1,166×
• People in Interest of PEA
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-04-25· cited 43×
• People v. Sellars
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-02-27· cited 13×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1980-02-20· cited 9×
• Bazan v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-04· cited 2×