misplaced confidence
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 385 U.S. 293 - Hoffa v. United States · 1966Most cited · 4,443 citing opinions
Fourth Amendment limit
Neither this Court nor any member of it has ever expressed the view that the Fourth Amendment protects a wrongdoer's misplaced belief that a person to whom he voluntarily confides his wrongdoing will not reveal it.
How often courts cite the case defining “misplaced confidence”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “misplaced confidence” — 4,437 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.