''Hester v. United States'', 265 U.S. 57 (1924), is a decision by the
United States Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
, which established the
open-fields doctrine
The open-fields doctrine (also open-field doctrine or open-fields rule), in the U.S. law of criminal procedure, is the legal doctrine that a "warrantless search of the area outside a property owner's curtilage" does not violate the Fourth Amen ...
. In an opinion written by Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Court held that "the special protection accorded by the
Fourth Amendment to the people in their 'persons, houses, papers and effects', is not extended to the open fields."
[''Hester'', 265 U.S. at 59.]
See also
*
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 265
*''
Katz v. United States
''Katz v. United States'', 389 U.S. 347 (1967), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court redefined what constitutes a "search" or "seizure" with regard to the protections of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constituti ...
'' (1967)
*''
Oliver v. United States'' (1984)
References
Further reading
*
External links
*
{{US4thAmendment, scope, state=expanded
United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Taft Court
United States Fourth Amendment case law
1924 in United States case law