silver platter doctrine
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 338 U.S. 74 - Lustig v. United States · 1949Most cited · 1,062 citing opinions
a search is a search by a federal official if he had a hand in it; it is not a search by a federal official if evidence secured by state authorities is turned over to the federal authorities on a silver platter. The decisive factor in determining the applicability of the Byars case is the actuality of a share by a federal official in the total enterprise of securing and selecting evidence by other than sanctioned means.
How often courts cite the case defining “silver platter doctrine”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “silver platter doctrine” — 1,062 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.