Unreasonable Seizure

In 2015, the Court decided Rodriguez v. United States, which held: "Absent reasonable suspicion, police extension of a traffic stop to conduct a dog sniff violates the Constitution’s shield against unreasonable seizures." Judgment was a 6-3. Justice Ginsburg wrote the majority.

This map goes from Rodiguez back to Terry v. Ohio. This choice of network anchor was based on analysis in Rodriguez that connected the seizure question back to Terry and Terry stops"

This network thus features cases that develop the "seizure" concept in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Please note that the embedded map shows the two-degree network using a Spaeth projection. Click the map to view other options.