People v. Cagle

How courts have described this case

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

• holding officer could pull out a shirt crammed under a passenger’s seat while conducting a protective search for weapons
• holding officer could pull out a shirt crammed under a passenger's seat while conducting a protective search for weapons
• holding a weapons search would be reasonable when a passenger leaned over in his seat after the officer activated overhead lights to signal an automobile to stop
• stating that a weapons search of area under passenger’s seat was proper when the passenger leaned over after the officer activated lights and sirens to signal the automobile to stop
• weapons search proper when passenger leaned over after officer activated overhead lights to signal automobile to stop
• passenger’s furtive conduct in bending down and placing the items under the passenger seat after police officer turned on his overhead lights would have warranted a reasonable belief that the passengers had a weapon beneath the seat, thus justifying a search for weapons in that area

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Cagle
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-05-31· cited 400×
• People v. Melgosa
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-04-04· cited 64×
• People v. Ratcliff
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-09-18· cited 63×
• People in Interest of PEA
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-04-25· cited 43×
• People v. Weston
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1994-03-14· cited 40×
• People v. Savage
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1985-04-22· cited 29×
• People v. Hughes
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-01-17· cited 26×
• People v. Corpany
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1993-10-04· cited 20×
• People v. Cobbin
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-12-17· cited 16×
• People v. Lagrutta
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-06-26· cited 15×
• People v. Romero
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-01-23· cited 13×
• People v. Perez
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-11-19· cited 12×
• Shamberg v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-10-14· cited 8×
• People v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1997-11-03· cited 7×
• People v. Dixon
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2000-12-21· cited 6×
• People v. Lingo
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1991-03-18· cited 5×
• State v. Milette, P2/95-3025 Ag (1998)
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 1998-01-22
• People v. Novitskiy
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-12-06
• The People of the State of Colorado v. Troy J. Baker
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2026-06-01

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• Michigan v. Long
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 3,763×
• New York v. Belton
  Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 3,483×
• Stone v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1971-05-17· cited 207×
• People v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-03-28· cited 100×
• People v. Casias
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1977-04-11· cited 64×
• United States v. Lowell John Pajari
  Eighth Circuit· 1983-08-31· cited 58×
• People v. Tate
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-02-07· cited 58×
• People v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-02-28· cited 37×
• People v. Henry
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1981-08-04· cited 37×
• Cowdin v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1971-12-13· cited 24×
• People v. Burley
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1974-06-17· cited 15×
• People v. Goessl
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1974-09-23· cited 14×
• United States v. Stoecker
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1984-01-30· cited 13×