Boyd v. United States

Boyd v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 11–14, 1885 Decided February 1, 1886
Full case name	Boyd and others, Claimants, etc. v. United States
Citations	116 U.S. 616 (more) 6 S. Ct. 524; 29 L. Ed. 746
Holding
A search and seizure is equivalent to a compulsory production of a man's private papers.
Court membership
Chief Justice Morrison Waite Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan William B. Woods · Stanley Matthews Horace Gray · Samuel Blatchford
Case opinions
Majority	Bradley, joined by Field, Harlan, Woods, Matthews, Gray, Blatchford
Concurrence	Miller, joined by Waite

Boyd v. United States, 116 U.S. 616 (1886) was a decision by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that "a search and seizure [was] equivalent [to] a compulsory production of a man's private papers" and that the search was "an 'unreasonable search and seizure' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment."^[1]