# Commissioner v. Brown

> Supreme Court of the United States · March 1, 1965 · 380 U.S. 901

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8951717

## Case

- **Full name:** Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Brown
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** March 1, 1965
- **Citations:** 380 U.S. 901; 85 S. Ct. 879
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 35 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment must be “accorded the most scrupulous exactitude when the ‘things’ are books, and the basis for their seizure is the ideas which they contain.”

## Opinion text

C. A. 9th Cir. (Certiorari granted, 377
U. S. 962.) Motion of Dana Latham for leave to participate in oral argument, as counsel for amici curiae, denied.

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