DEVON SHARP v. UNITED STATES

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that whether a defendant was seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment is a question of law, which we review de novo
• holding defendant was seized \in the absence of any sign that a reasonable person in these circumstances would believe the officer was giving him a genuine choice to decline the request\
• explaining that \Kelly is a pure questioning case\
• a reasonable person would not have understood the police officer's request to the driver to \step out of the vehicle\ as \giving him a genuine choice to decline the request and stay in the car\ but instead \conveyed a message that compliance with their request was required\ (brackets omitted)
• individual sitting in a parked car

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Rogers
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2017-07-21· cited 47×
• Anthony Hooks v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2019-05-30· cited 23×
• Everett Miles v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2018-03-29· cited 17×
• GORDON C. CARPENTER and TYRONE P. JONES v. UNITED STATES
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2016-08-11· cited 3×
• Dozier v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2019-12-05
• Golden v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2021-04-15
• Maye v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2021-10-07
• Crews v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2021-11-10
• Mitchell v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2024-05-09
• Ford v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2025-07-31
• Carter v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2025-08-28

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• Delaware v. Prouse
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-27· cited 5,549×
• Florida v. Bostick
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 4,435×
• Pennsylvania v. Mimms
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-05· cited 3,269×
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,950×
• Brendlin v. California
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-18· cited 1,523×
• People v. Luedemann
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2006-10-05· cited 525×
• Popple v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-10-14· cited 417×
• Gomez v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1991-09-30· cited 72×
• United States v. Barnes
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1985-08-16· cited 68×
• Miller v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2011-03-03· cited 49×
• Kelly v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1990-09-26· cited 47×
• United States v. Johnson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1985-08-05· cited 44×
• Umanzor v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2002-07-25· cited 44×
• Jones v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1978-09-18· cited 42×
• In re J.M.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1992-12-30· cited 42×