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DELAWARE v. PROUSE (1979)

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DELAWARE v. PROUSE
Term: 1978
Important Dates
Argued: January 17, 1979
Decided: March 27, 1979
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • John Paul Stevens • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Concurring
Harry Blackmun • Lewis Powell
Dissenting
William Rehnquist

DELAWARE v. PROUSE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 27, 1979. The case was argued before the court on January 17, 1979.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Delaware State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Search and seizure, vehicles
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Delaware
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 440 U.S. 648
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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