Brown v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the Fourth Amendment offers little protection to motorists who consent to a request to search their vehicle, even when the officer has no reason to suspect that the motorist is carrying contraband
• noting that “legal commentators have been widely critical of the United States Supreme Court’s consent-search jurisprudence”
• stating motorists who have been stopped for a traffic violation do not act from a position of psychological independence
• stating motorists who have been stopped for a traffic violation do not act from a position of psychological independence
• noting motorists have a “strong interest in catering to the officer’s wishes until the officer announces [his or her] decision whether to issue a citation or only a warning”
• noting motorists have a “strong interest in catering to the officer’s wishes until the officer announces [his or her] 28 decision whether to issue a citation or only a warning”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Iowa v. Randall Lee Pals
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2011-10-28· cited 252×
• State v. Leyva
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2011-02-17· cited 190×
• State v. Jenkins
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-09-07· cited 59×
• State v. Delong
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2015-06-18· cited 16×
• Skjervem v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2009-09-18· cited 8×
• State v. Morlock
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2008-08-29· cited 6×
• Fallon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2010-01-08· cited 3×
• Rockwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2009-09-04· cited 2×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2018-08-17· cited 1×
• James Henry Perozzo v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2021-07-09· cited 1×
• John William McKelvey III v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2020-09-04· cited 1×
• Phillip Alexander Duty v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2023-06-23

Cites

44 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×
• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• Berkemer v. McCarty
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 4,856×
• Florida v. Bostick
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 4,435×
• United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 3,736×
• Ohio v. Robinette
  Supreme Court· 1996-11-18· cited 2,025×
• Muehler v. Mena
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-22· cited 937×
• Knowles v. Iowa
  Supreme Court· 1998-12-08· cited 800×
• State v. Elders
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2007-07-30· cited 776×
• People v. Hollman
  New York Court of Appeals· 1992-02-20· cited 726×
• United States v. Mateen Yusuf Shabazz, A/K/A Edward L. Eberhart, A/K/A Edward Wallace, and Keith Lamar Parker
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-06-04· cited 480×
• Cooksey v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-07-19· cited 323×
• United States v. Albert Lee Purcell, Shon Purcell
  Eleventh Circuit· 2001-01-16· cited 246×
• United States v. Tommie T. Childs
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-01-18· cited 240×
• United States v. Furman Lattimore, Jr.
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-06-25· cited 227×
• State v. Glass
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-09-15· cited 208×
• State v. Carty
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2002-03-04· cited 205×
• Coleman v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-07-14· cited 170×
• Frink v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-06-29· cited 121×