Ambrose v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding search of cocaine bindle discovered during legal pat-down incident to arrest based on principle that “an officer may open a package in plain view if it is immediately apparent that the package is a single-purpose container used to carry illegal drugs”
• officer was justified in opening bindle because it was immediately recognizable as a single-purpose package used to carry illegal drugs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Delaoz
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-03-18· cited 11×
• Cardenas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2018-11-09

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• McCoy v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-11-30· cited 98×
• Reeves v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-09-14· cited 79×
• Schraff v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-12-22· cited 66×
• Dunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-11-05· cited 43×
• McGee v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-07-25· cited 38×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1990-05-11· cited 20×
• State v. Wagar
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2003-11-07· cited 10×
• Newhall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1992-12-31· cited 9×
• Pruitt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1992-04-10· cited 8×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-04-12· cited 7×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2009-06-26· cited 6×
• McGuire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2003-05-30· cited 3×
• Albers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2004-06-18· cited 1×