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United States v. Guzman

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Overruled in part
Court
Tenth Circuit
Citation
864 F.2d 1512
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
45 of 45
Citing cases (total)
45
Treatment dates
1995
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. United States v. Guzman was overruled in part on the test for an initial traffic stop. All 45 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below.
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The Tenth Circuit sitting en banc replaced Guzman's inquiry into whether a reasonable officer would have made the stop without an improper purpose. Its separate rule limiting further detention after a traffic stop remained intact and continued to be applied.

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.

45 later cases cite United States v. Guzman; 45 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

Overruled in part

  • The en banc Tenth Circuit overruled Guzman's pretext test for initial traffic stops and adopted a test based on an observed violation or reasonable suspicion of one.

    United States v. Botero-Ospina · Tenth Circuit (en banc) · filed

    Our sole inquiry is whether this particular officer had reasonable suspicion that this particular motorist violated “any one of the multitude of applicable traffic and equipment regulations” of the jurisdiction. Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648, 661, 99 S.Ct. 1391, 1400, 59 L.Ed.2d 660 (1979). To the extent that our decision in United States v. Guzman, 864 F.2d 1512 (10th Cir.1988), is inconsistent with this holding, it is overruled.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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