| Boyd v. United States | ||||||
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| Submitted February 1, 1886 |
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| Full case name |
Boyd and others, Claimants, etc. v. United States
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| Citations | 116 U.S. 616 (more) 6 S.Ct. 524; 29 L.Ed. 746 |
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| A search and seizure is equivalent to a compulsory production of a man's private papers. | ||||||
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| Majority | Bradley, joined by Field, Harlan, Woods, Matthews, Gray, Blatchford | |||||
| Concurrence | Miller, joined by Waite | |||||
Boyd v. United States, 116 U.S. 616 (1886), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that “a search and seizure [was] equivalent [to] a compulsory production of a man's private papers” and that the search was “an 'unreasonable search and seizure' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.”1
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See also
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 116
- Exclusionary rule
- Gouled v. United States (1921)
- Andresen v. Maryland (1976)
- Entick v. Carrington (GB, 1765)
References
- ^ 116 U.S. 616, 634–35.
Further reading
- Nelson, Knute (1923). "Search and Seizure: Boyd v. United States". ABA Journal 9: 773.
- Stewart, Potter (1983). "The Road to Mapp v. Ohio and beyond: The Origins, Development and Future of the Exclusionary Rule in Search-and-Seizure Cases". Columbia Law Review 83 (6): 1365–1404. doi:.
External links
- Boyd v. United States, 116 U.S. 616 (1886) (opinion full text).
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