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Florida v. Royer

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

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Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
460 U.S. 491
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
108 of 108
Citing cases (total)
6,722
Treatment dates
1989
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. Florida v. Royer's 108 flagged citations have all been read, with the one confirmed limiting treatment listed below. United States v. Sokolow narrowed the reach of Royer's least-intrusive-means language.
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The other opinions applied or factually distinguished Royer, rejected a party's adverse argument, or used the nearby treatment language for rulings and different precedents; none supplied another adverse treatment of Royer.

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.

6,722 later cases cite Florida v. Royer; 108 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 Court confined Royer's least-intrusive-means statement to the duration of an investigative stop and rejected using it to require less intrusive investigatory techniques before officers make the stop.

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

    That statement, however, was directed at the length of the investigative stop, not at whether the police had a less intrusive means to verify their suspicions before stopping Royer. The reasonableness of the officer’s decision to stop a suspect does not turn on the availability of less intrusive investigatory techniques.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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