United States v. Howard Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• allowing search under automobile exception if probable cause exists that “contraband” or “evidence of a crime will be found” (cleaned up)
• allowing search under automobile exception if probable cause exists that “contraband” or “evidence of a crime will be found” (cleaned up)
• “We join several sister circuits in answering” that “Gant applies beyond the automobile context to the search of a backpack.”
• search incident to arrest doctrine did not justify search of a backpack “not within reaching distance of ” the arrestee when the officer searched it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Anthony Caldwell
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-08-03· cited 96×
• United States v. Anthony Buster
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-02-22· cited 18×
• United States v. Perez
  First Circuit· 2023-12-28· cited 6×
• United States v. Quentin Horsley
  Fourth Circuit· 2024-06-24· cited 4×
• United States v. Arnez Salazar
  Seventh Circuit· 2023-06-02· cited 3×
• State of Iowa v. Patrick Scullark
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2024-08-21
• Commonwealth v. Alexander Soto
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2024-10-10
• United States v. Robert Turner
  Fourth Circuit· 2024-12-04
• Greenfield v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2025-04-10
• United States v. Milton Allen
  Fourth Circuit· 2026-04-28

Cites

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

• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• United States v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-11· cited 3,538×
• New York v. Belton
  Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 3,483×
• Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-29· cited 3,217×
• Arizona v. Gant
  Supreme Court· 2009-04-21· cited 2,725×
• Rehaif v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2019-06-21· cited 1,955×
• Davis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 1,497×
• California v. Carney
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-13· cited 1,276×
• Pennsylvania v. Labron
  Supreme Court· 1996-07-01· cited 668×
• Thornton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2004-05-24· cited 660×
• Flippo v. West Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1999-10-18· cited 198×
• United States v. Vinton
  D.C. Circuit· 2010-02-05· cited 120×
• United States v. Curtis
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-03-14· cited 115×
• United States v. Kelly
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-01-28· cited 102×
• United States v. Hassan Ali
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-03-19· cited 86×
• United States v. Ronald Lee Brookins
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-09-25· cited 60×
• United States v. Randall McGee
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-11-18· cited 58×
• United States v. Shakir
  Third Circuit· 2010-08-10· cited 55×