Downs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “police have the authority to forcibly detain a person if they have a reasonable suspicion that a vehicle or its occupants are subject to seizure for violation of law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-12-16· cited 208×
• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-07-31· cited 124×
• Lopez-Vazquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-29· cited 105×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-22· cited 71×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-04-06· cited 55×
• McAllister v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-08-30· cited 38×
• Weber v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-04-22· cited 34×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-09-10· cited 33×
• Atkinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-07-18· cited 29×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-01-09· cited 25×
• State v. Rollins
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-03-14· cited 21×
• Burrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-06-17· cited 21×
• Hovington v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-11-30· cited 20×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-11-20· cited 16×
• Howard v. Voshell
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1992-06-19· cited 15×
• State v. Huntley
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2000-05-23· cited 15×
• Word v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-07-03· cited 13×
• Stevens v. State of Delaware.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-01-20· cited 12×
• Evans v. State
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-04-30· cited 12×
• Cummings v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-01-04· cited 11×