United States v. Mendenhall

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an individual is seized when, by a show of authority, an officer restrains their liberty
• holding that seizure occurs when a reasonable person under the circumstances would not feel free to leave
• holding that Fourth Amendment rights are not implicated by consensual encounters between citizens and the police
• noting that the race, gender, age, and education of a young Black woman who “may have felt unusually threatened by the officers, who were white males” were all relevant factors in determining whether the woman voluntarily consented to a seizure
• noting that no justification is required for voluntary police-citizen encounters
• noting DEA agent's subjective intent to detain defendant is irrelevant unless intent was conveyed

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Other cases named United States v. Mendenhall

7 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• United States v. Mendenhall
  Tenth Circuit· 2019-12-23· cited 7×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 4×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Sixth Circuit· 1978-10-20
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Sixth Circuit· 1980-09-03
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-01-27
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-01-27
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1979-11-26