Illinois v. Gates
Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.
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The federal totality-of-the-circumstances rule remains controlling under the Fourth Amendment, but courts in Washington, Massachusetts, Alaska, New York, and New Mexico chose more protective state-law standards. Tennessee and Oklahoma also rejected Gates for a time, but later returned to its approach in State v. Tuttle and Langham v. State, so those superseded treatments are not listed. The other opinions applied Gates, described Gates's own displacement of Aguilar–Spinelli, reported another court's act, or used treatment language for unrelated authorities.
16,588 later cases cite Illinois v. Gates; 557 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 Illinois v. Gates?
This page shows what later courts did to it. Ask about your specific facts and see whether it still carries your argument, with citations you can check.
No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.
Every one of the 557 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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