Hicks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “in isolated cases the police may move a suspect without exceeding the bounds of a legitimate investigative detention[]”
• “[A] search which is minimally intrusive and reasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference passes constitutional muster.”
• \[T]he police must resolve their suspicions in the most expedient manner by diligently pursuing the means of investigation in the least intrusive manner possible.\ (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lopez-Vazquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-29· cited 105×
• Bease v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-09-29· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Revere
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-28· cited 43×
• In the Interest of S.J.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-05-19· cited 34×
• State v. Heath
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2006-11-28· cited 29×
• State v. Rollins
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-03-14· cited 21×
• Flowers v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-09-27· cited 19×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-02-22· cited 18×
• State v. Huntley
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2000-05-23· cited 15×
• Glover v. City of Wilmington
  D. Delaware· 2013-08-07· cited 9×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-04-10· cited 6×
• Caldwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-04-26· cited 6×
• State of Delaware v. Parks.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-06-24· cited 5×
• State of Delaware v. Marshall L. Rivers, III
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-04-21
• State v. Palmer
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-08-13
• State v. Stevens
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-12-12
• State v. Stevens
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2020-01-17
• State v. Walker
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-10-12
• State v. Swanson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-07-19
• Swanson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-12-15

Cites

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

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Delaware v. Prouse
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-27· cited 5,549×
• United States v. Place
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-20· cited 3,374×
• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• Michigan v. Summers
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 2,036×
• Levitt v. Bouvier
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1972-01-04· cited 265×
• United States v. Edward X. Mondello
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-03-07· cited 156×
• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-07-31· cited 124×
• United States v. Marcus Hooper
  Second Circuit· 1991-06-05· cited 88×
• United States v. Deborah Ann Sonido Baron, AKA Debbie A. Sonido, AKA Debra Ann Sonido
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-10-28· cited 73×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-07-17· cited 60×
• Dokes v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-16· cited 52×
• Buckingham v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-08-22· cited 51×
• State v. Prouse
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1978-01-30· cited 47×
• Henderson v. Battle Creek Medical Education Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-05· cited 41×
• Gregory v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-11-12· cited 39×
• State v. Cooley
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1983-02-07· cited 37×
• Alston v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-02-09· cited 26×
• Frank v. Brookhart
  Supreme Court· 1990-01-08· cited 23×