People v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• considering a speeding stop and “evolving circumstances” faced by the officer during the stop
• “[W]hen a traffic stop reveals a new set of circumstances, an officer is justified in extending the detention long enough to resolve the suspicion raised.”
• “A traffic stop is reasonable as long as the driver is detained only for the purpose of allowing an officer to ask reasonable questions concerning the violation of law and its context for a reasonable period.”
• “The Court of Appeals stated that there were ‘plausible’ innocent explanations for the statements made by the vehicle occupants. But the fact that such explanations can be imagined does not mean that Trooper Varoni acted unreasonably in seeking to resolve the inconsistencies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Henry
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2014-05-08· cited 259×
• People v. Tierney
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2005-08-25· cited 171×
• People v. Hyde
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2009-09-01· cited 162×
• People v. Slaughter
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2011-07-01· cited 106×
• State v. Duran
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2005-08-31· cited 106×
• O'BOYLE v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2005-07-28· cited 94×
• People v. Steele
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2011-04-14· cited 92×
• State v. Funderburg
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2008-04-15· cited 80×
• People v. Mullen
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2008-12-23· cited 65×
• People v. Dillon
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2012-05-15· cited 60×
• People v. Nguyen
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2014-06-24· cited 58×
• People v. Malone
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2010-03-30· cited 56×
• People v. Hrlic
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2008-01-31· cited 48×
• People of Michigan v. Glorianna Woodard
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2017-09-19· cited 48×
• People v. Gillam
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2007-07-18· cited 33×
• People of Michigan v. Robert Elijah Anthony
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2019-01-22· cited 33×
• People v. Simmons
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2016-07-19· cited 31×
• People v. Reese
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2008-10-14· cited 27×
• People v. Lemons
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2012-02-21· cited 23×
• State v. Morlock
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2008-08-29· cited 6×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• Berkemer v. McCarty
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 4,856×
• Ohio v. Robinette
  Supreme Court· 1996-11-18· cited 2,025×
• Illinois v. Caballes
  Supreme Court· 2005-01-24· cited 2,007×
• Knowles v. Iowa
  Supreme Court· 1998-12-08· cited 800×
• United States v. John Jay Hill and Malcolm Scott Hill
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-10-04· cited 337×
• United States v. Yul Darnell Givan, United States of America v. Wayne Torrence
  Third Circuit· 2003-02-26· cited 288×
• United States v. Brigham
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-08-19· cited 268×
• People v. Champion
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1996-07-02· cited 254×
• United States v. Williams
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-11-28· cited 212×
• United States v. Chhien
  First Circuit· 2001-09-24· cited 201×
• People v. Borchard-Ruhland
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1999-07-01· cited 199×
• People v. Burrell
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1983-10-17· cited 156×
• People v. Jenkins
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2005-02-01· cited 109×
• United States v. James Linkous
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-04-05· cited 98×
• People v. Oliver
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2001-06-12· cited 71×
• United States v. Ronald T. Johnson
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-06-22· cited 70×
• People v. Custer
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2001-07-30· cited 69×
• People v. Acoff
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1997-02-25· cited 9×