State v. Coons

How courts have described this case

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

• as a threshold matter, police officer must reasonably believe person to be frisked is armed and dangerous
• where officer emptied and searched eight-inch by nine-inch drawstring bag without first frisking it, search was unreasonable because not confined “to what was minimally necessary to discover the presence of a weapon”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Trine
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-03-12· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Pagan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-08-27· cited 25×
• State v. Roach
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1996-05-29· cited 18×
• State v. Szczerbiak
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2002-09-18· cited 17×
• State v. Perri
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2012-12-07· cited 13×
• State v. Webber
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1997-05-06· cited 10×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• Ybarra v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 2,082×
• People v. Thurman
  California Court of Appeal· 1989-04-14· cited 46×
• State v. Gravel
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1991-12-31· cited 43×
• State v. Alamont
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1990-07-12· cited 17×
• State v. Grant
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-01-23· cited 15×
• State v. Dodier
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1991-12-11· cited 5×