State v. Kersh

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that officer was justified in opening a car door to check on the condition of the defendant, who was slumped over the wheel
• holding that officer was justified in opening a car door to check on the condition of the defendant, who was slumped over the wheel
• concluding the officer should be “commended rather than criticized” for checking on the defendant
• officer justified in opening vehicle door to check condition of unresponsive occupant slumped behind the wheel
• survey of cases from other jurisdictions regarding the propriety of police opening a vehicle to determine whether an unconscious or disoriented person is in distress
• defendant slumped behind steering wheel did not respond to knocks on window

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Murray
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-05-30· cited 196×
• State of Iowa v. Christine Ann Kern
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-05-24· cited 134×
• State of Iowa v. Terry Lee Coffman
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2018-06-22· cited 59×
• State v. Crawford
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2003-04-02· cited 49×
• State v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1993-04-21· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Leonard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-04-18· cited 42×
• El Pueblo de Puerto Rico v. Rivera Collazo
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1988-10-06· cited 24×
• State v. Lake
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-10-16· cited 21×
• State v. Knox
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-07-11· cited 19×
• State v. Runner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 8×
• Mundy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2011-06-17· cited 7×
• State of Iowa v. Mehmed Ivankovic
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-06-15
• State of Iowa v. Steven Charles Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-08-17
• State of Iowa v. Ryan Scott Pearson
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2025-07-23

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mincey v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 3,849×
• Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
  Supreme Court· 1971-03-29· cited 1,845×
• United States v. Salvatore J. Barone
  Second Circuit· 1964-06-22· cited 166×
• Guardiola v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-05-17· cited 101×
• Howell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1974-03-25· cited 59×
• Calvin Vauss v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1967-01-10· cited 49×
• State v. Richards
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1974-01-24· cited 31×
• State v. Schrier
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1979-09-19· cited 31×
• United States v. Samuel E. Haley, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 1978-08-16· cited 25×
• Anchorage v. Cook
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-08-17· cited 18×
• State v. Harty
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1969-05-06· cited 6×