Arizona v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that passenger was seized incident to lawful traffic stop of driver and that police officer properly could frisk passenger with reasonable suspicion that he was armed and dangerous
• concluding that passenger was seized incident to lawful traffic stop of driver and that police officer properly could frisk passenger with reasonable suspicion that he was armed and dangerous
• holding that in a lawful traffic stop, police may detain an occupant of the automobile without additional cause to believe the occupant is involved in criminal activity
• holding that police may “stop and frisk” a passenger in a motor vehicle as long as they have a reasonably grounded suspicion of criminal activity
• holding that a traffic stop remains lawful so long as unrelated investigations do not “measurably extend the duration of the stop”
• holding that an officer may ask a passenger 8 1 to exit a vehicle based upon concerns regarding officer safety

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).