McKinney v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding corroboration insufficient where police “corroborated the accused’s identity but failed to corroborate the CI’s knowledge of concealed criminal activity”
• discussing circumstances in which officers must corroborate informant’s knowledge of the accused’s identity and involvement in criminal activity
• finding a tip insufficient to support probable cause where the police “corroborated the accused’s identity but failed to corroborate the CI’s knowledge of concealed criminal activity[]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Dunning
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-01-02
• Dunnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2022-01-20
• State v. Taylor; State v. Simmons
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2025-01-02
• Swanson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-12-15
• State v. Azofeifa-Ramirez
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2026-03-10

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Florida v. J. L.
  Supreme Court· 2000-03-28· cited 1,787×
• Florida v. JL
  Supreme Court· 2000-03-28· cited 1,350×
• United States v. Larry Valentine, A/K/A Hassan Deloa Tch, A/K/A Hassan Deloach, A/K/A Shawn Valentine
  Third Circuit· 2000-11-02· cited 267×
• United States v. David Scott Zimmerman
  Third Circuit· 2002-01-04· cited 160×
• Sisson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-06-19· cited 97×
• State v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-05-21· cited 87×
• LeGrande v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-04-22· cited 65×
• State v. Holden
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-02-05· cited 60×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-04-06· cited 55×
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-01-20· cited 46×
• Rivera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-11-10· cited 29×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-10-25· cited 23×