Long 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 an officer's attempt in contacting the inhabitants of a house by knocking on the back door after receiving no response at the front door is not a warrantless search
• concluding that no illegal search had occurred when officers knocked on appellant’s back door after receiving no answer at front door and then smelled marijuana coming from an open window on their way back to their vehicle
• holding that sheriff who knocked at the front door of home and received no answer, then knocked at the back door and also received no answer, and then while returning to his car, smelled marijuana though an open window, did not conduct a “search”
• finding sheriff, who unsuccessfully attempted to contact occupants while investigating unusual aircraft activity, did not conduct an illegal search by looking through window on which blinds were open after smelling marijuana
• no illegal search where sheriff knocked on front and back doors of residence to investigate suspicious activity and discovers scent of marijuana emanating from window
• police first knocked on front door; rural property with an airstrip behind it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bower v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-01-25· cited 311×
• State v. Seagull
  Washington Supreme Court· 1981-07-30· cited 263×
• Oaks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-12-01· cited 135×
• Duff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-19· cited 111×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-26· cited 103×
• Dubry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-27· cited 100×
• Dillard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-04-20· cited 89×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-26· cited 83×
• Gutierrez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-12-17· cited 82×
• Christopher v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-10-20· cited 75×
• Leighton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-12-08· cited 70×
• Herrera v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-01-25· cited 68×
• Keen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-01-21· cited 68×
• Milligan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-01· cited 60×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-09-14· cited 57×
• Washington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2004-12-14· cited 56×
• DeMoss v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-12-15· cited 56×
• Nored v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1994-03-14· cited 52×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-02-04· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Signorine
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-22· cited 46×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Carroll v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-26· cited 7,454×
• United States v. Rabinowitz
  Supreme Court· 1950-02-20· cited 2,080×
• Cooper v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-02-20· cited 1,583×
• Harris v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1947-06-09· cited 1,370×
• Curtis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-03-12· cited 80×
• The State of Texas v. Salvador Gonzales
  Fifth Circuit· 1968-01-15· cited 79×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-07-17· cited 48×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-06-25· cited 40×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-05-19· cited 37×
• Barnes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-09· cited 33×
• Hineline v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-12-19· cited 28×
• Valdez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-06-07· cited 27×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-09-25· cited 26×
• Rudolph Gil v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-03-15· cited 23×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-10· cited 21×
• Gil v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-10-27· cited 10×