Harris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• the defendant was only successful in partially concealing the item of contraband from the officers view and it was “immediately retrievable”
• the defendant was only successful in partially concealing the item of contraband from the officers view and it was “immediately retrievable”
• “Whether the defendant briefly hides evidence on a rooftop or in his mouth, if the police perceive the act of concealment and could immediately retrieve the evidence, the defendant has failed to ‘suppress’ evidence ***.”
• “Whether the defendant briefly hides evidence on a rooftop or in his mouth, if the police perceive the act of concealment and could immediately retrieve the evidence, the defendant has failed to ‘suppress’ the evidence”
• “Whether the defendant briefly hides evidence on a rooftop or in his mouth, if the police perceive the act of concealment and could immediately retrieve the evidence, the -6- defendant has failed to ‘suppress’ evidence ***.”
• no concealment where contraband is \immediately retrievable\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thornton, Gregory
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-04-02· cited 270×
• State of Tennessee v. Ledarren S. Hawkins
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2013-06-20· cited 209×
• People v. Comage
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2011-02-25· cited 54×
• Cooke v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-24· cited 23×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-05-14· cited 13×
• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-06-01· cited 8×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-06-02· cited 5×
• State v. Land
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-01-24
• State v. Bolden
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2025-12-16

Cites

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

• Leatherbury v. Greenspun
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-11-30· cited 76×
• In Re the Adoption of Swanson
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-04-27· cited 72×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-12-30· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Govens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-28· cited 63×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-12-12· cited 57×
• Lewis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2001-08-14· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Morales
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-01-03· cited 44×
• Chance v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-11-08· cited 43×
• Weber v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-04-22· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Delgado
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-25· cited 33×
• Vigue v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1999-09-03· cited 30×
• State v. Fuqua
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1997-07-03· cited 30×
• State v. Cooper
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-04-20· cited 29×
• State v. Logan
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-04-01· cited 27×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-02-23· cited 26×
• State v. Cox
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-12-23· cited 26×
• State v. Mendez
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2001-12-17· cited 23×
• Zimmerman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-04-10· cited 22×
• Frayer v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-06-18· cited 16×
• Pennewell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-21· cited 16×