People v. Williams

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 inventory search of a vehicle is unconstitutional where the vehicle was legally parked on the street outside the arrestee’s residence
• holding that an inventory search of a vehicle is unconstitutional where the vehicle was legally parked on the street outside the arrestee’s residence
• clarifying that statute authorizing impoundment “does not . . . end the inquiry”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Evans
  California Court of Appeal· 2011-11-04· cited 93×
• United States v. Caseres
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-07-21· cited 86×
• People v. Torres
  California Court of Appeal· 2010-09-21· cited 47×
• Mateos-Sandoval v. County of Sonoma
  N.D. California· 2013-01-31· cited 24×
• People v. Shafrir
  California Court of Appeal· 2010-03-29· cited 23×
• Quezada v. City of Los Angeles
  California Court of Appeal· 2014-01-08· cited 16×
• Standard Pacific Corp. v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 2009-08-14· cited 9×
• People v. Wallace
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2017-09-07· cited 8×
• People v. Quick
  California Court of Appeal· 2016-11-22· cited 7×
• United States v. Phillips
  E.D. California· 2014-03-27· cited 2×
• Quezada v. City of Los Angeles
  California Court of Appeal· 2014-01-28
• People v. Lee
  California Court of Appeal· 2019-10-03
• People v. Smith
  California Court of Appeal· 2020-03-12
• Blakes v. Super. Ct.
  California Court of Appeal· 2021-12-16
• Coalition on Homelessness v. City and County of S.F.
  California Court of Appeal· 2023-07-21
• People v. Banks
  California Court of Appeal· 2023-11-20
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-12-17
• People v. McCowan
  California Court of Appeal· 2026-01-13
• People v. Perez
  California Court of Appeal· 2026-03-19