United States v. Fields

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the automobile exception “may not apply when a vehicle is parked at the residence of the criminal defendant challenging the constitutionality of the search”
• applying the automobile exception where the defendant crashed his car following a police chase
• distinguishing Coolidge by noting, “The Fourth Amendment concerns that arise when the police search a car that is parked in the driveway of a home, without a warrant, are not present here.”
• exception applies to crashed vehicle with repairable issues

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. DeJear
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-01-09· cited 72×
• United States v. Goncalves
  First Circuit· 2011-04-29· cited 43×
• Robinson v. Cook
  First Circuit· 2013-01-23· cited 42×
• United States v. Albert Guzman
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-01-07· cited 41×
• United States v. Rickey Beene
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-03-08· cited 40×
• United States v. Justin Ortiz
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-03-18· cited 36×
• United States v. Blaylock
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-07-31· cited 17×
• United States v. Shaun Short
  Eighth Circuit· 2021-06-29· cited 10×
• James Rountree v. Joseph Lopinto, III
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-10-02· cited 7×
• United States v. Riojas
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-06-04· cited 4×
• United States v. Albert Guzman
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-01-20
• United States v. Robert Blaylock
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-07-31
• United States v. Mooty
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2015-03-10
• United States v. Beene
  W.D. Louisiana· 2016-09-26
• James Ralph Farris, Jr. v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2023-09-06
• United States v. Clayton
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-04-05
• State of Missouri v. Douglas Beeson
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2025-03-04

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Carroll v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1925-11-26· cited 7,454×
• Illinois v. Wardlow
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 4,162×
• United States v. Ross
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-01· cited 3,985×
• United States v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-11· cited 3,538×
• New York v. Belton
  Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 3,483×
• United States v. Salvucci
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,879×
• California v. Carney
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-13· cited 1,276×
• Maryland v. Dyson
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-21· cited 695×
• Thornton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2004-05-24· cited 660×
• United States v. Joseph Noel Seals
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-03-24· cited 182×
• United States v. Vega
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-08-28· cited 110×
• United States v. Franklyn Arango
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-07-17· cited 68×
• United States v. Felix Julian Cardona
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-04-07· cited 62×
• United States v. Korvell Dennis Pittman
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-06-13· cited 32×
• United States v. Tomas Vente Sinisterra
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-02-21· cited 31×