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525 U.S. 981

Hanlon v. Berger

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 9, 1998

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1998-11-09

Relies on Wilson · Berger v. Hanlon

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1998-11-09

How this case has been cited

Cited by 101 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably 205 Ill. 2d 444 - People v. Pitsonbarger (2002), Association of Mexican-American Educators v. California (2000)

25 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 17 states

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1C. A. 9th Cir.; and

¶2C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari granted limited to

¶3the following questions: “1. Whether law enforcement officers violate the Fourth Amendment by allowing members of the news media to accompany them and to observe and record their execution of a warrant? 2. Whether, if this action violates the Fourth Amendment, the officers are nonetheless entitled to a defense of qualified immunity?” Cases consolidated and a total of one hour allotted for oral argument. Reported below: No. 97-1927, 129 F. 3d 505; No. 98-83, 141 F. 3d 111.

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