Jorge Miranda Irene Miranda v. City of Cornelius Acme Towing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that 16 probable cause of a vehicle violation, standing alone, is not a sufficiently reasonable 17 justification for impoundment under the Fourth Amendment
• holding that the city incurred no liability under § 1983 based solely on a constitutional violation sustained by the 26 KIRKPATRICK V. CTY. OF WASHOE plaintiff where the violation occurred in contravention of the city’s official policy
• holding that the city incurred no liability under § 1983 based solely on a constitutional violation sustained by the 26 KIRKPATRICK V. CTY. OF WASHOE plaintiff where the violation occurred in contravention of the city’s official policy
• stating that a driver’s “citation for 5 a non-criminal traffic violation . . . is not relevant except insofar as it affects the driver’s 6 ability to remove the vehicle from a location at which it jeopardizes the public safety or is 7 at risk of loss.”
• stating, in an impoundment case, that the question upon review “of a state-approved search (or seizure) is not whether the search or seizure was authorized by state law. The question is rather whether the search was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”
• “The need to deter a driver’s unlawful conduct is by itself insufficient to justify a tow under the ‘caretaker’ rationale”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).