# Payton v. New York

> Supreme Court of the United States · April 15, 1980 · 445 U.S. 573

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9427855

## Case

- **Full name:** Payton v. New York
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** April 15, 1980
- **Citations:** 445 U.S. 573; 100 S. Ct. 1371; 63 L. Ed. 2d 639; 1980 U.S. LEXIS 13
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Blackmun
- **Judges:** Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, Stewart, White
- **Cited by:** 6,515 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Disagreed with by Alexander ex rel. Estate of Quade v. City & County of San Francisco, 29 F.3d 1355 (1994).
- Negative treatments: 3
- Distinguished by: 25
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9427855

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that, once an arrest warrant has been issued, it is constitutionally reasonable to require the suspect to open the doors of his home to police officers because “for Fourth Amendment purposes, an arrest warrant founded on probable cause implicitly carries with it the li…
- holding that a New York statute “authoriz[ing] police officers to enter a private residence without a war- rant and with force, if necessary, to make a routine felony Cite as: 576 U. S. ____ (2015) 7 Opinion of the Court arrest” was “not consistent with the Fourth Amendment”
- recognizing "long-settled premise that absent exigent circumstances, a warrantless entry to search for weapons or contraband is unconstitutional even when a felony has been committed and there is probable cause to believe that incriminating evidence will be found within"
- holding that “the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the police from making a warrantless and nonconsensual entry into a suspect’s home in order to make a routine felony arrest.”
- holding warrantless arrest in fugitive’s own home unconstitutional absent probable cause and exigent circumstances, but that an arrest warrant founded on probable cause allows entry into the named person’s home for the limited purpose of effecting the arrest

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Blackmun,
concurring;
I joined the Court’s opinion in United States v. Watson, 423 U. S. 411 (1976), upholding, on probable cause, the warrant-less arrest in a public place. I, of course, am still of the view that the decision in Watson is correct. The Court’s balancing of the competing governmental and individual interests properly occasioned that result. Where, however, the warrantless arrest is in the suspect’s home, that same balancing requires that, absent exigent. circumstances, the result be the other way. The suspect’s interest in the sanctity of his home then outweighs the governmental interests.
I therefore join the Court’s opinion, firm in the conviction that the result in Watson and the result here, although opposite, are fully justified by history and by the Fourth Amendment.

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