Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Telefilm, Inc. v. Superior Court
Telefilm, Inc. v. Superior Court, 338 U.S. 801 (1949)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1949-09-16
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- “... the jurisdiction of a court to decide a case does not disappear if its decision on the merits is wrong.”
- officials may stop car without probable cause for regulation of traffic, identification where proper and in many other circumstances that do not imply an arrest or charge of crime
- “[T]he mistakes must be those of reasonable men, acting on facts leading sensibly to their conclusions of probability.”
Citator
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- Cited by
- 108 opinions
On petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of California.
Dismissed in vacation pursuant to Rule 35 of the Rules of this Court.