State v. Van Zanten

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that stopping a commercial vehicle posing a safety threat due to an unsecured hazardous materials bucket was reasonable
• “Addressing public safety concerns is a bedrock of the community caretaking doctrine . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Fletcher
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2025-06-27
• State v. Adams
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2025-08-11
• State v. Horn
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2025-12-09

Cites

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

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Whren v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-05-15· cited 7,105×
• United States v. Arvizu
  Supreme Court· 2002-01-15· cited 3,936×
• South Dakota v. Opperman
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 3,445×
• California v. Carney
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-13· cited 1,276×
• New York v. Burger
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-19· cited 1,072×
• United States v. Terry King and Valerie Jean Burdex
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-03-26· cited 252×
• State v. Bishop
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2009-01-30· cited 158×
• State v. Page
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2004-12-15· cited 99×
• United States v. Azim Choudhry
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-08-25· cited 58×
• State v. John Patrick Linze, Jr.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2016-11-10· cited 54×
• City of Idaho Falls, an Idaho Mun. Corp. v. H-K Contractors, Inc.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2018-04-24· cited 49×
• United States v. Maldonado
  First Circuit· 2004-01-20· cited 44×
• Miller v. IDAHO STATE PATROL
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2011-05-18· cited 37×
• United States v. Delgado
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-10-07· cited 36×
• State v. Clarke
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2019-06-12· cited 36×
• United States v. Victor Orozco
  Ninth Circuit· 2017-06-01· cited 25×
• State v. Phillip James Morgan
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2013-01-25· cited 24×
• State v. Maddox
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2002-06-13· cited 23×
• Apodaca v. State, Tax and Revenue Dept.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1994-08-29· cited 17×