Sommer v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• an appellate court should not overturn an order on a motion to suppress evidence if any legal basis to sustain the trial court exists
• fact that police justified search as inventory search did not preclude validity of search as one incidental to lawful arrest
• appellate court should not overturn an order denying suppression of evidence if any legal basis to sustain the trial court exists
• “Police officers and other citizens, too, can ask questions of anyone on the street. Anyone questioned can refuse to answer.”
• search conducted June 23, 1982

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-12-18· cited 31×
• State v. Roy
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1986-10-15· cited 24×
• Burke v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-03-21· cited 18×
• State v. Arnold
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-09-18· cited 18×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-11-04· cited 15×
• J.C.W. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-04-14· cited 15×
• State v. Smith
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-10-31· cited 14×
• State v. Blanco
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-10-06· cited 6×
• Woodson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-05-16· cited 6×
• State v. Diaz
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-08-29· cited 5×
• Jenkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-09-27· cited 2×
• Tardif v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
  M.D. Florida· 2011-11-04· cited 2×
• State v. Small
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-02-11· cited 1×
• Peek v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-03-14· cited 1×
• State v. Unruh
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-12-22· cited 1×
• JCW v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-04-14
• State v. Schley
  Volusia County Court· 1987-04-21
• State v. Porterfield
  Broward County Court· 1989-06-29
• State v. Melican
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-07-19
• M.T. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-08-14

Cites

44 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×
• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• 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×
• Dunaway v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 3,633×
• New York v. Belton
  Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 3,483×
• South Dakota v. Opperman
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 3,445×
• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Brown v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-25· cited 2,679×
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,950×
• Combs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-07-28· cited 350×
• Lightbourne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-15· cited 139×
• United States v. Alex Elmore
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-05-22· cited 106×
• Elmore v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-09· cited 87×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-05-28· cited 64×