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State v. Snapp

Citations

  • 275 P.3d 289
  • 174 Wash. 2d 177

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding stop valid 9 where it was 24 minutes after sunset in dark conditions and officer “could rationally believe that 10 a traffic infraction was being committed”
  • concerning the exception to the warrant requirement for a search incident to arrest
  • on dark night, officer could not see race of defendant
  • \Terry's rationale applies to traffic infractions.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Madsen, Johnson, Chambers, Owens, Fairhurst, Stephens, Wiggins, Alexander

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

Cites

36 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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