Butts v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• officers who are unable to independently corroborate criminal activity may not initiate a gunpoint seizure based upon confirmation of innocent details such as appearance or clothing
• insufficient anonymous tip consisting simply of fact that black male with grey beard, wearing black cap, grey pants and blue jacket was riding bicycle, had gun in pocket, and was possibly selling drugs
• officers who are unable, to independently corroborate criminal activity may not initiate a gunpoint seizure based upon confirmation of innocent details such as appearance or clothing
• tip failed to provide reasonable suspicion where it “ ‘offered nothing more than innocent details of identification that could have been provided by any pilgrim on the roadway1 ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• J.L. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-12-17· cited 64×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-02-18· cited 40×
• Wyche v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-07-10· cited 27×
• Travers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-08-20· cited 12×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-11-17· cited 9×
• People v. Ramirez
  California Court of Appeal· 1996-01-26· cited 9×
• R.A. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-01-27· cited 8×
• D.B.P. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-19· cited 7×
• State v. D.D.D.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-08-26· cited 7×
• R.J.C. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-04-18· cited 6×
• Felton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-01· cited 5×
• Thornton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-03-07· cited 2×
• DBP v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-19
• RA v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-01-27
• State v. DDD
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-08-26
• JL v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-12-17

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Alabama v. White
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 3,282×
• State v. Webb
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-05-14· cited 258×
• Feller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-04-21· cited 49×
• Robinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-01-26· cited 26×
• Sapp v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-01-31· cited 12×
• Swanson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-01-06· cited 11×
• McCarthy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-01-11· cited 6×
• Simpkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-02-08· cited 3×
• Oliver v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-05-28· cited 1×