Malloy 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 officers’ inability to “see the plate at a distance of 75 feet” created reasonable suspicion to stop the car and “to investigate the possible equipment defect” under 21 Del. C. § 4334(c)
• driving away from a tavern, making wide turns, and driving erratically created reasonable articulable suspicion to make investigatory stop on suspicion of DUI
• driving away from a tavern, making wide turns, and driving erratically created reasonable articulable suspicion to make investigatory stop on suspicion of DUI
• upholding an investigatory stop where police officers observed a “possible equipment defect” and saw the driver leave a tavern, make a “wide turn onto the road[,]” drive “erratically[,]” weave “across lanes and within [his] own lane for 1 ½ miles”
• “Before stopping [a suspect’s] car, the police [have] to have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting that he [is] violating the traffic laws.”
• “When undertaking to draft an indictment, counsel for the State should turn to the statute defining the crime, and, with the words of the General Assembly before him, write a count that does not omit allegations of an essential element of the offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lovett v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-10-09· cited 49×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-04-06· cited 19×
• West v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-07-06· cited 19×
• State v. Cass
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-09-09· cited 17×
• Luttrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-28· cited 14×
• Zugehoer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-09-01· cited 10×
• Caldwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-04-26· cited 6×
• Dahl v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-05-15· cited 5×
• State v. General Chemical Corp.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1988-10-25· cited 5×
• State v. Trower
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2007-04-18· cited 4×
• Mott v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-11-22· cited 4×
• Holder v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-04-03· cited 3×
• Marvel v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-09-10· cited 3×
• Wright v. Pierce
  D. Delaware· 2014-05-21· cited 2×
• Brisco v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-06-23· cited 1×
• State v. Toth
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2000-08-28· cited 1×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-06-15
• Brisco v. Phelps
  D. Delaware· 2010-11-22
• State of Delaware v. Howard.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-10-27
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-02-04

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• Delaware v. Prouse
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-27· cited 5,549×
• New York v. Belton
  Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 3,483×
• Hamling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1974-10-15· cited 2,897×
• United States v. Hugh MacLeod Pheaster, United States of America v. Angelo Inciso
  Ninth Circuit· 1976-08-19· cited 295×
• United States v. Gordon R. Thompson
  Second Circuit· 1965-12-06· cited 115×
• Traylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1983-03-22· cited 58×
• United States v. James Hart
  Sixth Circuit· 1981-05-18· cited 48×
• State v. Blendt
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1956-02-03· cited 27×
• Redden v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1971-08-23· cited 23×
• State v. Moore
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1973-06-27· cited 21×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-07-17· cited 20×
• State v. Minnick
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1960-09-28· cited 18×
• Warren v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1978-03-02· cited 15×
• Lasby v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1962-10-25· cited 15×
• State v. Allen
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1955-03-07· cited 14×
• State v. Martin
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1960-08-01· cited 12×
• State v. Lasby
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1961-09-08· cited 12×
• Farren v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1971-12-02· cited 11×