Kearse 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 an officer may not conduct an investigatory stop without well-founded suspicion that the defendant is committing or will imminently commit a criminal offense
• fact that defendant walked briskly from car he was leaning into in a high crime area insufficient ground to justify his detention
• fact that defendant walked briskly away from parked vehicle after observing police officers was insufficient basis to justify investigatory stop or subsequent pat-down search
• defendant leaning into a car in a high crime area and then walking away briskly did not establish founded suspicion
• defendant walking “briskly” away from officers after seen leaning into occupied ear parked in service station lot, no justification for stop
• fact that defendant walked away briskly after observing officer was insufficient to justify the stop

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Carter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-08-17· cited 60×
• United States v. Johnson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1985-08-05· cited 44×
• G.J.P. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-04-24· cited 39×
• Cobb v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-08-18· cited 32×
• State v. Hoover
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-03-02· cited 29×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-12-29· cited 23×
• Dames v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-08-24· cited 23×
• Pantin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-05-12· cited 23×
• In the Interest of R.B. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-04-13· cited 23×
• State v. Arnold
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-09-18· cited 18×
• Freeman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-05-25· cited 17×
• Wilson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-07-01· cited 17×
• Hills v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-07-22· cited 14×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-08-17· cited 13×
• State v. Lawson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-02-21· cited 13×
• Graham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-10-08· cited 12×
• Murphy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-08-26· cited 11×
• Mitchell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-02-16· cited 11×
• King v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-03-09· cited 10×
• Dean v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-04-10· cited 9×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Stevens
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-02-07· cited 168×
• Lower v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-07-27· cited 25×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-10-10· cited 7×
• Newman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-06-10· cited 1×