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Boyd v. United States

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Declined by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
116 U.S. 616
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
125 of 125
Citing cases (total)
3,745
Treatment dates
1977
Declined by some courts
At least one reviewed court has declined to follow this case. No reviewed court has overruled it. Boyd v. United States has one confirmed treatment, listed below, after resolution of all 125 flagged citations. G. M. Leasing Corp. v. United States expressly declined to follow Boyd dicta that could exempt warrantless tax-collection invasions of privacy from the Fourth Amendment's ordinary warrant requirement.
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The other readable opinions applied Boyd, described its treatment of older authority, or reported later courts' acts without independently treating it; the one unavailable source is documented below and supports no inferred 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.

3,745 later cases cite Boyd v. United States; 125 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

Declined to follow

  • The Court declined to follow Boyd dicta insofar as it could be read to exempt tax-collection invasions of privacy from the Fourth Amendment's ordinary warrant requirement.

    G. M. Leasing Corp. v. United States · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    We do not find in Boyd any direct holding that the warrant protections of the Fourth Amendment do not apply to invasions of privacy in furtherance of tax collection. Insofar as language in Boyd might be read so to state, we decline to follow those dicta into rejection of the basic governing principle that has shaped Fourth Amendment law.
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