Legal Opinion

Davis v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 23, 2020No. 19-5421PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Per curiam

In July 2016, police officers in Dallas, Texas, received a tip about a suspicious car parked outside of a house in the Dallas area. The officers approached the car and encountered Charles Davis in the driver's seat. They ordered him out of the car after smelling marijuana. As Davis exited the car, the officers spotted a black semiautomatic handgun in the door compartment. They then searched Davis and found methamphetamine pills.

*1061 Davis had previously been convicted of two state felonies. In this case, a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Texas indicted Davis for being a felon in…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. United States v. OlanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  2. Rosales-Mireles v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2018
  3. United States v. Carlos Saro, United States of America v. Cornelio Cabrera-BaezCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1994
  4. United States v. DurhamCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2011
  5. United States v. James Vincent WellsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1998

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. United States v. Cristerna-GonzalezCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2020
  2. United States v. OsubaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2023
  3. United States v. Junior AbreuCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2022
  4. United States v. Junior Roldan MarinCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2022
  5. United States v. Salvador Nunez-HernandezCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2022

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