State v. Morton

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that, although the trial court ruled that an officer’s subjective belief that it was necessary to search a “mislaid” cigarette case for the owner’s identification was reasonable, the circumstances established that it was not in fact objectively reasonable to do so
• holding that the warrantless police search of a mislaid purse turned over to police by the finder was permitted under Pidcock but that the subsequent search of a cigarette case inside the purse was not because police had already found identification in the purse by that point
• describing Pidcock as holding, specifically, “that a finder of lost or abandoned property has a statutory duty *** to return it to its owner and, should that finder turn the property over to the police, they in turn are placed in the position of the finder”
• merely mislaying property and walking away does not constitute abandonment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Kealey
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1995-12-19· cited 45×
• Morris v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1995-12-14· cited 34×
• State v. Dickerson
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1995-06-21· cited 14×
• State v. Kealey
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-02-26· cited 10×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2015-08-26· cited 4×
• State v. Vanburen
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2014-05-14· cited 3×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ball v. Gladden
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1968-07-17· cited 849×
• State v. Pidcock
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1988-08-02· cited 41×
• State v. Rounds
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1985-04-10· cited 22×
• State v. Belcher
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1988-08-02· cited 16×