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Payton v. New York

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

Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
445 U.S. 573
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
284 of 284
Citing cases (total)
7,490
Treatment dates
1981
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. Payton v. New York remains controlling for routine arrests inside a suspect's home, but Steagald v. United States limited the reach of its arrest-warrant rule. Steagald held that an arrest warrant alone does not authorize a search of a third party's home, as explained in the confirmed treatment listed below.
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All 284 flagged citations have been read. Earlier rulings denying Payton retroactive effect on direct review were displaced by United States v. Johnson; People v. Graham later applied Payton on remand.

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.

7,490 later cases cite Payton v. New York; 284 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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Treatments

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  • The Supreme Court declined to extend Payton's arrest-warrant rule to a search of a third party's home.

    Steagald v. United States · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    In Payton, of course, we recognized that an arrest warrant alone was sufficient to authorize the entry into a person’s home to effect his arrest. ... This analysis, however, is plainly inapplicable when the police seek to use an arrest warrant as legal authority to enter the home of a third party to conduct a search.
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