Meeks 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 the removal of a lump of marijuana from the defendant's pocket was improper because the officer knew that it was not a weapon
• finding seizure of a bag containing marijuana was impermissible where, during a “standard procedure” frisk, officer felt a “lump approximately five inches long by three inches wide” inside defendant’s pocket which he knew was not a weapon, but believed was marijuana
• officer stated the lump in defendant’s pocket was not a weapon and believed it to be marijuana.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gipson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-01-20· cited 45×
• Walker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-11-06· cited 39×
• C.G. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-03-19· cited 23×
• Dunn v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-03-14· cited 22×
• White v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-11-01· cited 20×
• Baldwin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-09-03· cited 12×
• Piediscalzo v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-09-29· cited 11×
• Jamison v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-09-19· cited 9×
• Phillips v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-08-02· cited 9×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-01-26· cited 8×
• Shaw v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-12-22· cited 8×
• Fraley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-09-12· cited 5×
• Smalls v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-07-03· cited 5×
• G.M., a Child v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-08-12· cited 4×
• Crawford v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-11-28· cited 3×
• State v. Gary
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-04-09· cited 3×
• Wilkerson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-10-25· cited 2×
• CG v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-03-19
• T.T., A CHILD v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-08-29
• Harrison v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-10-14

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• People v. Mosher
  California Supreme Court· 1969-12-12· cited 265×
• People v. Collins
  California Supreme Court· 1970-01-23· cited 105×
• State v. Handspike
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-04-07· cited 7×