Caldwell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a traffic stop must be justified from the outset by a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity and that the investigation must be reasonably related in scope to the stop’s initial justification to comport with the Fourth Amendment
• holding that a traffic stop must be justified from the outset by a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity and that the investigation must be reasonably related in scope to the stop’s initial justification to comport with the Fourth Amendment
• relying on statute that allowed officers to question detained motorists on destination
• finding nervous behavior and an odd assertion insufficient to support reasonable suspicion
• \the legitimating raison d'etre of [a traffic] stop may evaporate if its pursuit is unreasonably attenuated or allowed to lapse into a state of suspended animation\ to pursue a drug investigation
• “A new trial is warranted only if the defendant can show that there is a reasonable probability that a joint trial caused substantial prejudice to the defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

86 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Askerooth
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-06-17· cited 136×
• State v. Duran
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2005-08-31· cited 106×
• Lopez-Vazquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-29· cited 105×
• Nathan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-08-29· cited 70×
• State v. Jenkins
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-09-07· cited 59×
• Bease v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-09-29· cited 57×
• Holden v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-06-20· cited 44×
• Culver v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-05· cited 43×
• Loper v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-11-19· cited 36×
• Stafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-12-04· cited 36×
• Garden v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-01-24· cited 30×
• State v. Heath
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2006-11-28· cited 29×
• Murray v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-07-10· cited 27×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-04-06· cited 25×
• Cooke v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-24· cited 23×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2008-04-18· cited 21×
• State v. Chandler
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-04-02· cited 21×
• State v. Vandenberg
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2002-06-06· cited 20×
• West v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-07-06· cited 19×
• Flowers v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-09-27· cited 19×