Michigan v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the justification to conduct such a warrantless search does not vanish once the car has been immobilized”
• discussing the irrelevance of handcuffing in light of the exception’s bright-line rule
• “It is thus clear that the justification to conduct such a warrantless search does not vanish once the car has been immobilized.”
• “It is thus clear that the justification to conduct ... a warrantless search does not vanish once the car has been immobilized....”
• “[W]hen police officers have probable cause to believe there is contraband inside an automobile that has been stopped on the road, the officers may conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle, even after it has been impounded and is in police custody.”
• “[WJhen police officers have probable cause to believe there is contraband inside an automobile that has been stopped on the road, the officers may conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle, even after it has been impounded and is in police custody.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).