Welsh v. Wisconsin

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Welsh v. Wisconsin

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued October 5, 1983
Decided May 15, 1984

Full case name:	Edward G. Welsh v. State of Wisconsin
Docket #:	82-5466

Citations:	466 U.S. 740; 104 S. Ct. 2091; 80 L. Ed. 2d 732; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 82; 52 U.S.L.W. 4581

Procedural history:	Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin

Argument:	Link to Oral Argument

Holding

Absent exigent circumstances, a warrantless nighttime entry into the home of an individual to arrest him for a civil, nonjailable traffic offense is prohibited by the special protection afforded the individual in his home by the Fourth Amendment.

Court membership

Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor

Case opinions

Majority by: Brennan
Joined by: Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, O'Connor
Concurrence by: Blackmun
Dissent by: White
Joined by: Rehnquist, (Burger would have dismissed the writ)