justice samuel alito wrote an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, citing his dissent in "arizona v. gant" that called "chimel"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s reasoning "questionable." however, "we should not mechanically apply the rule used in the predigital era to the search of a cell phone. many cell phones now in use are capable of storing and accessing a quantity of information, some highly personal, that no person would ever have had on his person in hard-copy form."