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Silverman v. United States

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
365 U.S. 505
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
77 of 77
Citing cases (total)
77
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Silverman v. United States remains good law after all 77 flagged citations were read; none adversely treated it. Later courts continued to apply its protection against an unauthorized physical intrusion into the home and its rule that Fourth Amendment rights do not depend on a technical property trespass.
More on how this was screened

Katz v. United States expanded protection to surveillance without physical intrusion while citing Silverman approvingly; references to overruling concerned other decisions. The complete People v. Payton cluster, including three separate dissents, contains no Silverman citation and is a false index match. Withdrawn and vacated opinions supplied no live treatment.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

77 later cases cite Silverman v. United States; 77 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.

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No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.

Every one of the 77 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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