Purnell 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 “[c]ourts will defer to the experience and training of police officers.”
• finding that the informant was known personally by the police officer and had given reliable information in the past
• finding that the tip was sufficiently corroborated given that the suspect “matched the description provided by the informant and was in the vicinity stated by the informant”
• finding that officers had reasonable and articulable suspicion to conduct a Terry frisk because past-proven reliable informant supplied a tip that the suspect was armed and because of the officers’ prior experience
• upholding a Terry search for weapons where the “informant had relayed to the officers that the men were armed”
• “Reasonable and articulable suspicion is a less stringent standard than the probable cause standard and requires a quantum of proof that is less than preponderance of the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lopez-Vazquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-29· cited 105×
• Flonnory v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-02-01· cited 78×
• Culver v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-05· cited 43×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-12-02· cited 42×
• Garvey v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-04-28· cited 28×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-01-09· cited 25×
• Lopez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-11-22· cited 25×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-10-25· cited 23×
• State v. Rollins
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-03-14· cited 21×
• McCracken v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-11-28· cited 13×
• State v. Henderson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2005-01-11· cited 8×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-04-10· cited 6×
• State of Delaware v. Marshall L. Rivers, III
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-04-21
• State v. Rothenberg
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-05-22
• State v. Simpson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-08-21
• State of Delaware v. Leroy Berry
  Delaware Court of Common Pleas· 2018-04-20
• State v. Layton
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-08-02
• State v. Gillen
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-10-10
• McDougal v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-03-21
• State v. Fullman
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-04-24