United States v. Diaz-Castaneda

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “when police officers see a license plate in plain view, and then use that plate to access additional non-private information about the car and its owner, they do not conduct a Fourth Amendment search.”
• stating that “when police officers see a license plate in plain view, and then use that plate to access additional non-private information about the car and its owner, they do not conduct a Fourth Amendment search”
• agreeing “that people do not have a subjective expectation of privacy in their license plates, and that even if they did, this expectation would not be one that society is prepared to recognize as reasonable”
• \[The officer] was therefore free to ask [the passenger] for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.\
• “The police may ask people who have legitimately been stopped for identification without conducting a [separate] Fourth Amendment search or seizure.”
• “The police may ask people who have legitimately been stopped for identification without conducting a Fourth Amendment search or seizure.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).