Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
Potter StewartA person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
Potter StewartIt must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.
Potter StewartIn fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
Potter StewartThe Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.
Potter StewartWe are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.
Potter Stewart