Jenkins 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 defendant's suspicious behavior and the strong odor of marijuana established probable cause to search defendant’s car
• holding that defendant's suspicious behavior and the strong odor of marijuana established probable cause to search defendant's car
• Holding that Jenkins’ behavior and the strong marijuana odor were sufficient to establish probable cause to arrest Jenkins for Driving Under the Influence
• holding that defendant's suspicious behavior and the strong odor of marijuana established probable cause to search defendant’s car
• holding police had probable cause to arrest defendant based on suspicious conduct of defendant and “the strong marijuana odor”
• finding “sufficient justification to conduct a separate search and seizure beyond the purpose of the initial traffic stop” when a police officer “smelled a strong odor of marijuana,” which established probable cause to arrest the defendant and search the car

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Loper v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-11-19· cited 36×
• State v. Chandler
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-04-02· cited 21×
• Purnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-08-25· cited 17×
• Chisholm v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-02-04· cited 9×
• State of Missouri v. James Earl Lee
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2016-05-03· cited 5×
• People v. Cannergeiter
  Superior Court of The Virgin Islands· 2016-09-29· cited 4×
• State of Delaware v. Niyala.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-07-17
• Aikens v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-08-29
• State v. Dewitt
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-05-18
• State v. Seth
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-06-16
• State v. Stevens
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-10-06
• State v. Faulkner
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-11-30
• State of Delaware v. Leroy Berry
  Delaware Court of Common Pleas· 2018-04-20
• State v. Kamwani
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-05-31
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-06-25
• State v. Morris
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-01-17
• Mendez-Garcia v. State
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2020-07-24
• Houston v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-04-20
• Juliano v. State of Delaware
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-09-10
• State v. White
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-08-31

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Whren v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-05-15· cited 7,105×
• New York v. Belton
  Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 3,483×
• Julie Ann Giles v. Richard (Dick) J. Ackerman, Sheriff of Bonneville County
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-11-02· cited 180×
• Caldwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-09-13· cited 108×
• Lopez-Vazquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-29· cited 105×
• Ortiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-01-25· cited 86×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-12-02· cited 42×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-01· cited 36×
• Couch v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-02-14· cited 13×
• Ortiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-11-16· cited 8×