Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, No. 71-732 (U.S. Supreme Court) (412 U.S. 218; 93 S.Ct. 2041) (May 29, 1973) (Justice Stewart)
In this case the Court established a "totality of circumstances" test to determine whether a defendant's consent to a search, if given at all, was voluntary and not the product of "duress or coercion, express or implied".
In this case the Court agreed that a determinative factor in evaluating voluntariness ...
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