Wyoming v. Houghton

Wyoming v. Houghton

Infobox SCOTUS case
Litigants=Wyoming v. Houghton
ArgueDate=January 12
ArgueYear=1999
DecideDate=April 5
DecideYear=1999
FullName=Wyoming v. Sandra Houghton
USVol=526
USPage=295
Citation=
Prior=
Subsequent=
Holding=Absent exigency, the warrantless search of a passenger's container capable of holding the object of a search for which there is probable cause is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, but justified under the automobile exception as an effect of the car.
SCOTUS=1994-2005
Majority=Scalia
JoinMajority=Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer
Concurrence=Breyer
Dissent=Stevens
JoinDissent= Souter, Ginsburg
LawsApplied=Fourth Amendment

"Wyoming v. Houghton", 526 U.S. 295 (1999), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that, absent exignecy, the warrantless search of a passenger's container capable of holding the object of a search for which there is probable cause is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, but justified under the automobile exception as an effect of the car.

ee also

*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 433
*"Carroll v. United States", ussc|267|132|1925
*"Arkansas v. Sanders", ussc|442|753|1979
*"United States v. Ross", ussc|456|798|1982
*"California v. Greenwood", ussc|486|35|1988

External links

*ussc|526|295|Text of the case from Findlaw.


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