United States v. Cortez
- Decided
- January 21, 1981
- Docket
- 79-404
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 5,975 timesNo negative treatment found in this library
What later courts said
- holding that reasonable suspicion requires a “particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity” — George Karnes v. Thomas Skrutski, in His Individual Capacity Edward Kowalski, in His Individual Capacity (1995)
- holding that reasonable suspicion exists where an officer has “a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity” — United States v. Goddard, Melvin (2007)
- holding that officers must possess a “particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity” — State v. Taveras (2012)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
Chief Justice Burger delivered the opinion of the Court.
We granted certiorari, 447 U. S. 904, to consider whether objective facts and circumstantial' evidence suggesting that a particular vehicle is involved in criminal activity may pro [*413] vide a sufficient basis to justify an investigative stop of that vehicle.
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Statutes cited
Cite this
United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411 (1981)Read the full opinion
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