People v. Smithers

How courts have described this case

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

• evaluating officers' actions in light of their failure to act—had they not conducted the stop and frisk for weapons, someone could have been killed or seriously injured
• evaluating officers’ actions in light of their failure to act — had they not conducted the stop and frisk for weapons, someone could have been killed or seriously injured
• “The fact that the officers had information that the complaint they were investigating involved a man with a gun casts a heavy weight in favor of the reasonableness of the search. . . . We should evaluate the officers’ actions in light of one’s reaction had they failed to act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Pully
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-08-30· cited 241×
• People v. Thomas
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2001-09-20· cited 172×
• People v. Scott
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-04-16· cited 154×
• People v. Gonzalez
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1998-12-03· cited 142×
• People v. Love
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2002-04-18· cited 133×
• People v. Flowers
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 123×
• People v. Cox
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2002-12-05· cited 115×
• People v. Long
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-12-16· cited 94×
• People v. in the Interest of D.F.
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1997-02-18· cited 74×
• J.L. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-12-17· cited 64×
• People v. Wardlow
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1998-09-24· cited 57×
• People v. Sparks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-08-03· cited 51×
• State v. Tucker
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1994-08-05· cited 47×
• People v. Ledesma
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2003-06-19· cited 47×
• People v. Anaya
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-05-09· cited 39×
• State v. Lamb
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-07-31· cited 37×
• People v. Day
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-09-26· cited 34×
• People v. Martin
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-01-12· cited 33×
• People v. Morales
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-10-23· cited 31×
• People v. Yarber
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-04-16· cited 30×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 3,736×
• Brown v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-25· cited 2,679×
• Cady v. Dombrowski
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 2,465×
• Davis v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-23· cited 1,385×
• People v. Clay
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1973-11-20· cited 190×
• United States v. Joyce E. Hall, A/K/A Joyce E. Sutton
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-01-08· cited 182×
• People v. Williams
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1974-05-20· cited 118×
• People v. Brooks
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1972-03-30· cited 106×
• People v. McGowan
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-11-30· cited 105×
• The PEOPLE v. Moore
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1966-09-23· cited 16×
• State ex rel. H. B.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1977-12-02· cited 16×
• People v. Smithers
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-08-31· cited 1×

Other cases named People v. Smithers

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• People v. Smithers
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1998-11-13· cited 5×
• People v. Smithers
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-08-31· cited 1×
• People v. Smithers
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1991-11-15