Ames v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “We must never lose sight of our starting point that warrantless searches and seizures . . . are presumptively unreasonable and that the burden is on the State to rebut that presumption and persuade the suppression hearing judge otherwise.” (citation omitted)
• characterizing a frisk as a “junior varsity search”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Norman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-03-27· cited 26×
• In re: D.D.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2022-06-21· cited 11×
• Lockard v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-07-29· cited 7×
• Goodwin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2017-12-21· cited 3×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-03-28
• Shuler v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-10-31
• Martin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-11-21

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• Alabama v. White
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 3,282×
• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• Florida v. J. L.
  Supreme Court· 2000-03-28· cited 1,787×
• Florida v. JL
  Supreme Court· 2000-03-28· cited 1,350×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1997-08-27· cited 47×
• Gibbs v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1973-07-03· cited 35×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-04-15· cited 27×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1989-03-02· cited 25×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-09-06· cited 17×
• Alfred v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-02-14· cited 17×
• McDowell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-02-19· cited 15×
• State v. Mason
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-03-27· cited 5×