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Supreme Court· 4/19/1983

Texas v. Brown

Citations

  • 460 U.S. 730
  • 103 S. Ct. 1535
  • 75 L. Ed. 2d 502
  • 1983 U.S. LEXIS 143
  • 51 U.S.L.W. 4361

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that probable cause “does not demand any showing that such a belief be correct or more likely true than false”
  • holding that the discussion of a contested issue in a plurality opinion is \not a binding precedent\ if it \has never been expressly adopted by a majority of this Court\
  • holding that probable cause \does not demand any showing that such a belief be correct or more likely true than false\
  • holding that the officer’s change in position, which included “ben[ding] down at an angle, . . . is irrelevant to Fourth Amendment analysis”
  • holding that probable cause “does not demand any showing that such a belief be correct or more likely true than false”
  • holding that the discussion of a contested issue in a plurality opinion is “not a binding precedent” if it “has never been expressly adopted by a majority of this Court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Blackmun, Brennan, Burger, Marshall, O'ConnoR, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, White

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1,951 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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

Other cases named Texas v. Brown

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