Melton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[An] officer may detain [an] individual ... with handcuffs for the officer’s safety without converting [a] Terry stop into a formal arrest.”
• which sets forth the elements of an arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 99×
• Dixon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-03-30· cited 67×
• State v. Parnell
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1969-04-02· cited 42×
• Romanello v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1964-02-04· cited 30×
• Gustafson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-02-08· cited 29×
• City of Miami v. Nelson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-03-15· cited 27×
• State v. Padilla
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1970-05-12· cited 26×
• Range v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1963-10-02· cited 25×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-11-12· cited 21×
• Kyser v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-10-27· cited 20×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-05-02· cited 19×
• Bey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-03-07· cited 18×
• Bulgin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-05-19· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-05-12· cited 16×
• State v. Amaro
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-08-31· cited 16×
• Deloach v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-11-09· cited 13×
• McAnnis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-07-15· cited 13×
• Chance v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-07-14· cited 13×
• Giblin v. City of Coral Gables
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1963-01-02· cited 13×
• McNeil v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-09-09· cited 11×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1953-03-31· cited 67×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1950-05-26· cited 37×