State v. Richter

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that without any evidence to the contrary, it is reasonable to infer that the driver of a vehicle is also its registered owner
• holding that “the officer’s subsequent check of associated motor vehicle licenses and records” was reasonable because “the state is the very body that issues, controls, and regulates such licenses and records” (quotation omitted)
• visual inspection of license plate mounted on moving car in public view, as well as random computer check of license, was not a search
• \It was reasonable for the officer to infer that the driver was the owner of the vehicle. . . . Such an inference gave rise to a reasonable suspicion that the driver was committing a violation of [the law].\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State Of Iowa Vs. Robert Joseph Vance
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2010-11-19· cited 176×
• Commonwealth v. Deramo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-02-08· cited 59×
• Armfield v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2009-12-18· cited 52×
• People v. Jones
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2004-04-14· cited 35×
• State v. Candelaria
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2010-09-23· cited 32×
• State v. Tozier
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2006-08-28· cited 25×
• The People v. Andrew R. Bushey
  New York Court of Appeals· 2017-05-04· cited 20×
• Columbia Town Center Title Co. v. 100 Investment Ltd. Partnership
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-02-02· cited 17×
• United States v. Joshua Pyles
  Sixth Circuit· 2018-09-17· cited 15×
• State v. Glover
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2018-07-27· cited 14×
• State v. Bell
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2012-12-21· cited 9×
• State v. Edmonds
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2012-10-12· cited 8×
• People v. Goodum
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-05-06· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Starr
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-08-16· cited 7×
• State v. Betancourt
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2025-07-17· cited 6×
• State v. Glover
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2017-06-30
• State of New Hampshire v. Juan Alberto Monegro-Diaz
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2022-06-14
• State v. Reno
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2004-01-26

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Pike
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1996-07-03· cited 82×
• Village of Lake in the Hills v. Lloyd
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-04-29· cited 33×
• State v. Bjerke
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-07-01· cited 25×
• State v. Roach
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1996-05-29· cited 18×
• State v. McBreairty
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1997-05-09· cited 18×
• State v. Jaroma
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1993-08-31· cited 16×
• State v. Summers
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1997-11-19· cited 10×
• State v. Harlow
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-04-03· cited 9×