Wren v. Towe

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• holding that officers were entitled to qualified immunity for the seizure of a vehicle based on evidence found in the vehicle, even assuming the search of that vehicle was unlawful

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Cited by

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

• Johnson v. Deep East Texas Regional Narcotics Trafficking Task Force
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-07-27· cited 414×
• Derrick Newman v. James Guedry
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-12-21· cited 247×
• Haggerty v. Texas Southern University
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-11-18· cited 184×
• Ernest Edgar Black Jeff Wigington
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-01-22· cited 170×
• Brown v. Nationsbank Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-09-08· cited 147×
• McIntosh v. Partridge
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-08-11· cited 126×
• Mesa v. Prejean
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-09-23· cited 92×
• Ryan Crostley v. Lamar County Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-05-29· cited 88×
• Evett v. DETNTFF
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-06-03· cited 61×
• Imtiaz Ali v. Alberto R. Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-02-15· cited 56×
• Texas, the State Of v. Thirty Thousand Six Hundred Dollars and No/100 ($30,660.00) in U.S. Currency
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-05-20· cited 53×
• Hare v. City of Corinth, Miss.
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-02-12· cited 51×
• Lia Lingo v. City of Salem
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-08-08· cited 48×
• Olufemi Anthony Lukan v. North Forest Isd, Gloria S. Scott, L v. Brisco
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-09-27· cited 38×
• Cheryl Steadman, Lisa Sheppard v. The Texas Rangers, Maurice Cook, Captain, Chief of the Texas Rangers
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-07-06· cited 37×
• Vaughn v. Chapman
  Seventh Circuit· 2016-10-13· cited 25×
• Hobart v. City of Stafford
  S.D. Texas· 2011-04-29· cited 20×
• Karim Codrington v. Jay Dolak
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-07-09· cited 20×
• White v. City of Birmingham
  N.D. Alabama· 2015-05-27· cited 17×
• Systems Contractors Corporation v. Orleans Parish School Board, Kenneth J. Ducote
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-08-12· cited 14×

Cites

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

• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• Malley v. Briggs
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-05· cited 6,748×
• United States v. Calandra
  Supreme Court· 1974-01-08· cited 3,415×
• Hunter v. Bryant
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-16· cited 3,271×
• Johnson v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-12· cited 2,857×
• Behrens v. Pelletier
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-21· cited 2,084×
• United States v. Janis
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 1,453×
• City of Lancaster v. Chambers
  Texas Supreme Court· 1994-06-15· cited 928×
• Barbara Coleman v. Houston Independent School District, Anita Ellis
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-05-19· cited 632×
• Billy J. Hale v. Carl Townley, Billy J. Hale v. Carl Townley
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-03-23· cited 348×
• Samuel L. Pfannstiel v. City of Marion, Doyle Elliot and James A. Pearce, Mike Earl, Harvey Faulkner and Waldon Boecker, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-12-12· cited 232×
• Mangieri v. Clifton
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-08-24· cited 207×
• Cantu v. Rocha
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-02-28· cited 165×
• Willie Bigford, Jr. v. Joe Max Taylor, Individually and as Sheriff of Galveston County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-01-05· cited 124×
• Fred M. Vance v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-05-20· cited 37×
• Cameron County v. Alvarado
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1995-06-22· cited 27×
• Naylor v. State of LA
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-10-09· cited 25×
• City of Waco, Texas v. James Dean Bridges, James Dean Bridges, Percy Garcia and U.S.A.
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-09-16· cited 25×

Other cases named Wren v. Towe

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Wren v. Towe
  Supreme Court· 1998-10-05
• Wren v. Towe
  Supreme Court· 1998-10-05