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Supreme Court· 1/13/1982

Washington v. Chrisman

Citations

  • 455 U.S. 1
  • 102 S. Ct. 812
  • 70 L. Ed. 2d 778
  • 1982 U.S. LEXIS 63
  • 50 U.S.L.W. 4133

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 officer may accompany an arrested person into the arrested person’s residence for the purpose of ensuring officer safety
  • holding that an officer may accompany an arrested person into the arrested person's residence for the purpose of ensuring officer safety
  • holding that the plain view doctrine “permits a law enforcement officer to seize what is clearly incriminating evidence or contra band when it is discovered in a place where the officer has a right to be”
  • holding that the arresting officer had “a right to remain literally at [the defendant’s roommate’s] elbow” while the defendant’s roommate retrieved his identification from his dormitory room after having been arrested elsewhere
  • holding plain view seizure of contraband valid because police officer was lawfully on premises incident to valid arrest
  • holding plain view seizure of contraband valid because police officer was lawfully on premises incident to valid arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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242 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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

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