Cary Allen Simmang v. Standard Life and Casualty Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that searching the passenger compartment of a vehicle incident to arrest is only lawful if the area is within reaching distance of the arrestee
• holding that police may not search a car “whenever an individual is caught committing a traffic offense”
• holding that police may not search a car “whenever an individual is caught committing a traffic offense”
• holding that a search of the defendant’s vehicle, when the defendant was arrested and secured inside of a patrol car, violated the Fourth Amendment
• holding that a warrantless vehicle search incident to arrest is justified “when the arrestee is unsecured and within reaching distance of the passenger compartment”
• holding that the Fourth Amendment does not permit officers to search every vehicle incident to arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).