Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. v. McNutt

How courts have described this case

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• stating that there is “no bright line rule for determining when an investigatory stop crosses the line and becomes an arrest”
• stating that there is “no bright line rule for determining when an investigatory stop crosses the line and becomes an arrest”
• finding no arrest where the suspects led officers on a long high-speed chase and, when the suspects finally pulled over, one was “non-compliant and combative” and the other-drunk
• finding detention was arrest where police ordered plaintiffs from their car at gunpoint; handcuffed, frisked, and placed plaintiffs in patrol cars; plaintiffs were compliant; and officers had merely a generalized concern that plaintiffs might be armed
• defendant ordered to exit car and lie on the ground, then handcuffed with gun pointed at his head, ultimately determined not to be an arrest
• defendant ordered to exit car and lie on the ground, then handcuffed with gun pointed at his head, ultimately determined not to be an arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).