Scott 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 no reasonable suspicion existed when officer patrolling a high crime area was aware of recent thefts and saw defendant drive a sparsely traveled street at 1:30 a.m. with “sheeting material” in his car’s back seat
• concluding that detention was improper when it was based only on (1) officer’s awareness “that there were reports of hubcap thefts in the nearby apartment complex; (2) his characterization of the Towngate area as a ‘high crime area’; (3
• finding that time of day 1:30 a.m.-along with other factors-high crime area and reports of hubcap thefts in the past, insufficient to support reasonable suspicion
• despite high-crime area, no reasonable suspicion where only other factors were awareness of thefts in nearby apartments, black males driving Cadillac at 1:30 a.m., and observation of sheeting material in car’s back seat
• despite high-crime area, no reasonable suspicion where only other factors were awareness of thefts in nearby apartments, black males driving Cadillac at 1:30 a.m., and observation of sheeting material in car’s back seat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Crain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-30· cited 681×
• McCullough v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-26· cited 334×
• Klare v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-07-31· cited 115×
• Hudson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-03-06· cited 88×
• Amorella v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-07-13· cited 55×
• Gamble v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1999-12-30· cited 50×
• Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1996-05-15· cited 42×
• Luera v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-02-15· cited 36×
• Ceniceros v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-18· cited 30×
• Webb v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1985-06-26· cited 25×
• Tunnell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-07-13· cited 24×
• Faulk v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-29· cited 19×
• McMillan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-11-19· cited 19×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-12-05· cited 14×
• McVea v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1982-07-07· cited 11×
• David O. Meekins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-12-17· cited 10×
• Raymond McKinney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-08-13· cited 10×
• Benton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-25· cited 6×
• Charles James Snyder v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-10-02
• Charles James Snyder v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-11-20

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• 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. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-05-31· cited 233×
• Wood v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-11-06· cited 153×
• Baity v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-04-22· cited 117×
• Ablon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-06-09· cited 101×
• Borner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-16· cited 71×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-06-04· cited 68×
• Colston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-07-02· cited 53×
• Denham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-05-08· cited 49×
• Talbert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-01-17· cited 46×
• Onofre v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-01-11· cited 36×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-23· cited 36×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-01-29· cited 32×
• Hampton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-07-02· cited 30×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-03-10· cited 28×
• Castillo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-05-23· cited 14×