Harper v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “While none of the officers articulated that the reason they opened the case was because they were looking for a weapon, the mere fact that they did not give the right reason is not controlling.”
• “The decision of the officer is supported by the theory of law that they had probable cause to open the briefcase without a warrant because they had knowledge that there was a weapon located somewhere in the car.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Miller v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-12-30· cited 17×
• Sutton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-29· cited 13×
• Herring v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1988-08-31· cited 10×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-10-12· cited 2×
• Cordarrell Charles Carroll v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-12-23
• Alexander Nathaniel Brenes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-10-20
• State v. Joshua Lindsey
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2015-09-16

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Chambers v. Maroney
  Supreme Court· 1970-10-12· cited 4,391×
• United States v. Ross
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-01· cited 3,985×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 131×
• Esco v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-12-15· cited 111×
• Whaley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-03-27· cited 91×
• Sullivan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-12· cited 73×
• Montez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-12-17· cited 7×