State v. Duran

How courts have described this case

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

• “The aroma of burning marijuana must be accompanied by some evidence that the suspects are disposing of the evidence, as opposed to casually consuming it,” before the exigency exception applies.
• “It is ... unlikely that a person in possession of contraband, like marijuana, would be so consumed by paranoia as to dispose of the contraband . . . having no reason to suspect that law enforcement might be alerted to the illegal activities”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Met
  Utah Supreme Court· 2016-11-21· cited 42×
• State v. Harding
  Utah Supreme Court· 2011-12-16· cited 23×
• State v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2008-04-08· cited 7×
• State v. Hoffmann
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2013-12-12· cited 6×
• Brierley v. Layton City
  Utah Supreme Court· 2016-10-21· cited 3×
• D.A.B. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2009-06-25· cited 2×
• State Ex Rel. DAB v. State
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2009-06-25
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2025-10-30

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Payton v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-15· cited 7,618×
• Mincey v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 3,849×
• Texas v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-19· cited 3,147×
• Minnesota v. Olson
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-18· cited 1,715×
• United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-19· cited 1,683×
• Illinois v. McArthur
  Supreme Court· 2001-02-20· cited 735×
• United States v. Ronald Tobin, Clifford Roger Ackerson, United States of America v. Ronald Tobin
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-02-21· cited 265×
• United States v. James Elkins Carol Elkins, United States of America v. Carol Elkins James Elkins
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-08-02· cited 169×
• State v. Ashe
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-11-12· cited 73×
• State v. Alverez
  Utah Supreme Court· 2006-10-20· cited 57×
• State v. South
  Utah Supreme Court· 1996-08-30· cited 37×
• State v. Krukowski
  Utah Supreme Court· 2004-11-05· cited 19×
• State v. Peterson
  Utah Supreme Court· 2005-03-22· cited 15×
• State v. South
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1994-11-01· cited 11×
• State v. Duran
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2005-09-29· cited 10×
• United States v. Davis
  M.D. Florida· 2001-08-06· cited 2×