Wyoming v. Houghton, 526 U.S. 295 (1999), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that absent exigency, the warrantless search of a passenger's container capable of holding the object of a search for which there is probable cause is a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, but justified under the automobile exception as an effect of the car.
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