State of Minnesota v. Erica Ann Rohde

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the “focus on whether the impoundment was authorized by [state] law is misplaced, because the real question in this case is whether the impoundment was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment”
• distinguishing Bertine because “when the driver is not arrested, it is ‘not necessary for the police to take [the] vehicle into custody in the first place’”
• “Logically, this question [of whether impoundment is reasonable] is independent of whether the impoundment was authorized under [state] law, because a state statute might authorize an unreasonable search.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).