8 Md. App. 28 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably 16 Md. App. 83 - Bailey v. State (1972), 15 Md. App. 584 - Brown v. State (1972)
27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Preston v. United States · Dyke v. Taylor Implement Manufacturing Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that an automobile, unlike a dwelling, or person, may be searched without a warrant where there is probable cause to believe that the auto harbors ‘the instrumentality of a crime or evidence pertaining to a crime.’ Dyke v. Taylor Implement Mfg. Co., 391 U. S. 216 , at page 221. The right so to search an automobile, or other movable vehicle, does not depend on whether the searching officers first had probable cause to arrest the driver or other occupant. In Carroll v. United States, 267 U. S. 132 , the first warrantless automobile search case to be decided by the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Taft said: ‘The right to search and the validity of the seizure are not dependent on the right to arrest. They are dependent on the reasonable cause the seizing officer has for the belief that the contents of the automobile offend against the law. The seizure in such a proceeding comes before the arrest, * * *.’ 267 U. S. at 158-159 . “Although Carroll brought into question the constitutional validity of a federal statute which permitted agents to search automobiles without a warrant where they had probable cause to suspect the carriage of contraband, the fact that the Court found the statute constitutional permitted law enforcement agents to conduct this type of search even where not authorized by statute. Such a search was upheld by the Supreme Court in Brinegar v. United States, 338 U. S. 160 , where the transportation of liquor was again involved, and the rationale ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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