IRVINE v. CALIFORNIA (1954)

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IRVINE v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 1953
Important Dates
Argued: November 30, 1953
Decided: February 8, 1954
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Judgment of the court
Robert Jackson
Majority
Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren
Concurring
Tom Clark
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter

IRVINE v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 8, 1954. The case was argued before the court on November 30, 1953.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - search and seizure (other than as pertains to vehicles or Crime Control Act)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 347 U.S. 128
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Robert Jackson

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 conservative.

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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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