# Reid v. Georgia > Supreme Court of the United States · June 30, 1980 · 448 U.S. 438 URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9428068 ## Case - **Full name:** Reid v. Georgia - **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States - **Decided:** June 30, 1980 - **Citations:** 448 U.S. 438; 100 S. Ct. 2752; 65 L. Ed. 2d 890; 1980 U.S. LEXIS 148 - **Precedential status:** Published - **Opinion:** Dissent by Rehnquist - **Judges:** Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist - **Cited by:** 899 later opinions in the Frix Law Library ## Citator (automated) - No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases. - Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9428068 ## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction) - holding that an investigatory stop of the defendant could not be based on the mere fact that defendant had occasionally looked backward at another person as they proceeded through an airport concourse, even though defendant had arrived from a city that was a principal place of… - concluding that a drug enforcement agent’s hunch was insufficient to justify a Terry stop, where the agent had observed the defendant, a departing airline passenger, look back occasionally at another passenger as they proceeded through the terminal, had noted that the two men … - finding that arriving early in the morning, when law enforcement activity is lower, from a known drug-source state with no luggage other than shoulder bags was not sufficient for reasonable suspicion because those factors “describe a very large category of presumably innocent … - finding no reasonable suspicion in large part because defendant’s arrival “from Fort Lauderdale, which the agent testified is a principal place of origin of cocaine sold elsewhere in the country!,] • • • describe[d] a very large category of presumably innocent travelers, who w… - finding of probable cause improper where at time of arrest DEA agents only knew that (1) defendant arrived from a known source city, (2) defendant arrived in early morning, (3) defendant’s companion tried to conceal the fact that they were together, and (4) defendant and compa… ## Opinion text Me. Justice Rehnquist dissents for the reasons stated by Me. Justice Stewaet in his opinion in United States v. Mendenhall, 446 U. S. 544 (1980). He believes that the police conduct involved did not implicate the Fourteenth or Fourth Amendment rights of the petitioners. --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9428068. Public record. Not legal advice.