State v. Bennett

How courts have described this case

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

• no voluntary abandonment of seized article existed when unlawful police conduct caused defendant to drop object
• the defendant dropped paper bag containing marijuana to the ground after police told him to stop because they wanted to talk to him
• the defendant dropped paper bag containing marijuana to the ground after police told him to stop because they wanted to talk to him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jenison
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-03-12· cited 51×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-06· cited 50×
• State v. Bjerke
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-07-01· cited 25×
• In Re John N.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-07-20· cited 24×
• State v. Foster
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-01-14· cited 18×
• State v. Abdullah
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1999-06-15· cited 16×
• State v. Porter
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-12-11· cited 13×
• People v. Keys
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-07-31· cited 12×
• State v. Fournier
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-08-05· cited 11×
• State v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-08-25· cited 9×
• State v. Gary Santos
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2013-04-29· cited 7×
• Walden v. City of Providence
  D. Rhode Island· 2007-07-06· cited 7×
• State v. Towns
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-07-22· cited 3×
• State v. George L. Ditren
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2015-11-02
• State v. Pinheiro
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2011-03-22
• State v. Perry
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1999-06-22

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×
• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Brinegar v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 6,013×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Ybarra v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 2,082×
• Henry v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-11-23· cited 1,968×
• Chapman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1961-04-03· cited 891×
• Commonwealth v. Jeffries
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 151×
• Vaughn v. Municipal Court, Los Angeles Judicial District
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-14· cited 94×
• Walter Lee Parman v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1968-10-14· cited 86×
• Friedman v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1965-06-30· cited 70×
• Fletcher v. Wainwright
  Fifth Circuit· 1968-08-02· cited 54×
• Linscomb v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc
  Eighth Circuit· 1952-10-28· cited 35×
• Warren F. Williams v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1956-11-27· cited 35×
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Donald M. Painten
  First Circuit· 1966-11-10· cited 32×
• State v. Belcourt
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-02-18· cited 14×
• State v. Monteiro
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1971-05-28· cited 14×
• State v. Roach
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1969-11-19· cited 13×
• State v. Firth
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-08-04· cited 13×