Heien v. North Carolina
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Heien v. North Carolina is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a police officer’s reasonable mistake of law can still provide the reasonable suspicion necessary to justify a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Heien v. North Carolina canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16205768 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heien v. North Carolina Context triple: [October Term 2013, hasPart, Heien v. North Carolina]
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A.
Woodson v. North Carolina
Woodson v. North Carolina is a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down mandatory death penalty statutes as unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
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B.
Gebhart v. Belton
Gebhart v. Belton was a landmark Delaware school segregation case whose rulings in favor of Black students became one of the four consolidated cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education, contributing to the Supreme Court’s rejection of “separate but equal” in public education.
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C.
Tennessee v. Lane
Tennessee v. Lane is a 2004 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power to require states to provide accessible courthouses under the Americans with Disabilities Act as a valid enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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D.
Edwards v. South Carolina
Edwards v. South Carolina is a landmark 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned the breach-of-the-peace convictions of civil rights demonstrators, affirming their First Amendment rights to peaceful protest and assembly.
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E.
Chisholm v. Georgia
Chisholm v. Georgia was a 1793 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a state could be sued in federal court by a citizen of another state, a ruling that led directly to the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment limiting such suits.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heien v. North Carolina Target entity description: Heien v. North Carolina is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a police officer’s reasonable mistake of law can still provide the reasonable suspicion necessary to justify a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment.
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A.
Woodson v. North Carolina
Woodson v. North Carolina is a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down mandatory death penalty statutes as unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
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B.
Gebhart v. Belton
Gebhart v. Belton was a landmark Delaware school segregation case whose rulings in favor of Black students became one of the four consolidated cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education, contributing to the Supreme Court’s rejection of “separate but equal” in public education.
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C.
Tennessee v. Lane
Tennessee v. Lane is a 2004 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power to require states to provide accessible courthouses under the Americans with Disabilities Act as a valid enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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D.
Edwards v. South Carolina
Edwards v. South Carolina is a landmark 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned the breach-of-the-peace convictions of civil rights demonstrators, affirming their First Amendment rights to peaceful protest and assembly.
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E.
Chisholm v. Georgia
Chisholm v. Georgia was a 1793 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a state could be sued in federal court by a citizen of another state, a ruling that led directly to the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment limiting such suits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.