State v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding warrants check on passenger before officer inquired as to registered owner of suspected stolen car was unreasonable because officer had not formed reasonable articulable suspicion that defendant was engaged in any criminal activity
• finding officer, after discovering neither driver nor passenger were registered owner of vehicle, should have exercised right to inquire about registered owner
• detention of passenger to run warrant check was not justified by articulable suspicion of crime and violated passenger's Fourth Amendment rights
• not within the scope of the traffic stop to do a warrant check on the passenger where the passenger had denied having a license

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

50 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Lopez
  Utah Supreme Court· 1994-04-25· cited 119×
• State v. Worwood
  Utah Supreme Court· 2007-06-22· cited 92×
• People v. Harris
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2003-11-20· cited 59×
• State v. Alverez
  Utah Supreme Court· 2006-10-20· cited 57×
• State v. Markland
  Utah Supreme Court· 2005-04-15· cited 55×
• Salt Lake City v. Ray
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2000-03-02· cited 45×
• State v. Chapman
  Utah Supreme Court· 1996-07-19· cited 39×
• State v. Grovier
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-03-07· cited 31×
• State v. Steward
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-02-06· cited 30×
• State v. Kovach
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1992-09-04· cited 28×
• State v. Sims
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-03-15· cited 27×
• State v. Woodruff
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-03-12· cited 25×
• State v. Applegate
  Utah Supreme Court· 2008-09-09· cited 25×
• State v. Vigil
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-06-21· cited 24×
• State v. Sepulveda
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1992-11-19· cited 23×
• State v. Godina-Luna
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1992-01-30· cited 23×
• State v. Reynolds
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1994-02-22· cited 21×
• Sikes v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-09-06· cited 21×
• State v. Lopez
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1992-05-05· cited 20×
• State v. Munsen
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-11-07· cited 19×