Beltz v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding, contrary to federal law, that Alaskans have some reasonable expectation of privacy in garbage set out for routine collection on or adjacent to a public street
• noting in context of warrantless police searches of garbage outside home whether subjective expectation of privacy is objectively reasonable is question of law
• noting in context of warrantless police searches of garbage outside home whether subjective expectation of privacy is objectively reasonable is question of law
• requiring the police to have reasonable suspicion before they search through garbage that the owner has set out for collection
• adopting Litchfield analysis and noting that “a garbage search is a sufficiently minimal intrusion on privacy expectations to require only reasonable suspicion that the trash contains evidence of a crime causing serious harm to persons or property”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Minnesota v. David Ford McMurray
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-03-11· cited 27×
• State v. Gibson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2012-01-13· cited 12×
• Andrew Craig Simpson v. State of Alaska, Andrew Craig Simpson v. State of Alaska, Andrew Craig Simpson v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2021-05-21· cited 1×
• John William McKelvey III v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2020-09-04· cited 1×
• State of Alaska v. John William Mckelvey III
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2024-03-08
• Com. v. Williams, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-07-24

Cites

43 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• McDonald v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-12-20· cited 1,736×
• Michigan v. Tyler
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-31· cited 1,386×
• California v. Greenwood
  Supreme Court· 1988-05-16· cited 1,059×
• Litchfield v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-03-24· cited 465×
• People v. Edwards
  California Supreme Court· 1969-09-24· cited 301×
• State v. Hempele
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1990-07-17· cited 216×
• State v. Glass
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-09-15· cited 208×
• Ravin v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-05-28· cited 199×
• Coleman v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-07-14· cited 170×
• People v. Krivda
  California Supreme Court· 1971-07-12· cited 151×
• Smith v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-05-25· cited 100×
• State v. Tanaka
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1985-06-14· cited 85×
• Reeves v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-09-14· cited 79×
• Sprague v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-02-02· cited 69×
• Waring v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1983-09-09· cited 64×
• State v. Glass
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-05-25· cited 63×
• State v. Granville
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2006-06-09· cited 59×