Fortson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that police must have a valid justification for impounding a vehicle, as they may not use an inventory search as a pretext for an investigatory search
• holding that police must have a valid justification for impounding a vehicle and they may not use the inventory search as a pretext for an investigatory search
• search of automobile reasonable for officer safety after defendant’s arrest at police roadblock on traffic charges and before defendant allowed to secure items from his car
• contemporaneous warrantless search of automobile recently occupied by arrestee justified

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Alan K. Cherry
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-02-03· cited 44×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-27· cited 18×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-07· cited 17×
• Grimes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-22· cited 15×
• Robison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-01-04· cited 12×
• Waggoner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-30· cited 10×
• STROUD v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-03-01· cited 10×
• Brannon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-25· cited 9×
• Scoggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-17· cited 8×
• State v. Bell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-29· cited 8×
• State v. Howard
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-18· cited 8×
• United States v. Cherry, Alan
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-02-03
• State v. Robert Loechinger
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-12-14
• Robert Fowler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-01-28

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• New York v. Belton
  Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 3,483×
• South Dakota v. Opperman
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 3,445×
• State v. Hopkins
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-07-16· cited 44×
• State v. Ludvicek
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-09-11· cited 36×
• Goodman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-11-27· cited 34×
• Mulling v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-11-12· cited 16×
• Fortson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-06· cited 5×