Commonwealth v. Dickerson, D. of Holt, Esq.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the community caretaking exception to the warrant requirement is applicable only in cases involving automobile searches
• learning sheriffs noticed an open garage door in an apparently abandoned manufacturing plant and suspected burglary or vandalism
• agreeing with the line of authority holding that the community caretaking exception is applicable only in cases involving automobile searches
• acknowledging greater expectation of privacy in commercial premises after regular business hours
• reading ____ Cady as applying only to searches of automobiles, not homes
• “[Precedent neither establishes nor condones application of an amorphous ‘reasonableness’ test to determine the constitutionality of a warrantless search.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).