Olmstead v. United States
Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.
Status
141 later cases cite Olmstead v. United States; 141 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.
Relying on Olmstead v. United States?
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Treatments
Overruled in Part
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The Supreme Court negated Olmstead's conclusion that conversations passing over telephone wires fall outside the Fourth Amendment's protection.
Berger v. New York · Supreme Court of the United States · filed
Statements in the opinion that a conversation passing over a telephone wire cannot be said to come within the Fourth Amendment’s enumeration of “persons, houses, papers, and effects” have been negated by our subsequent cases ... and we so hold.
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The Supreme Court rejected Olmstead's remaining rule that electronic surveillance is not a Fourth Amendment search without physical trespass into a protected place.
Katz v. United States · Supreme Court of the United States · filed
We conclude that the underpinnings of Olmstead and Goldman have been so eroded by our subsequent decisions that the “trespass” doctrine there enunciated can no longer be regarded as controlling. ... The fact that the electronic device employed to achieve that end did not happen to penetrate the wall of the booth can have no constitutional significance.
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