463 U.S. 1032 (1983) Cited 3,660 times 20 Legal Analyses
Holding that "the search of the passenger compartment of an automobile . . . is permissible if the police officer possesses a reasonable belief based on specific and articulable facts which, taken together with the rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant the officers in believing that the suspect is dangerous and the suspect may gain immediate control of weapons"