State v. Ellis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a public safety stop may turn into an investigatory detention if an officer develops reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct while completing the public safety stop
• holding 9 that \a public safety or welfare stop is not for investigative purposes and must end as soon as the officer determines the citizen is not in need of help\
• holding 9 that \a public safety or welfare stop is not for investigative purposes and must end as soon as the officer determines the citizen is not in need of help\
• voicing the concern that “[t]he police could routinely carry out criminal investigatory detentions of all citizens without risking suppression of discovered evidence”
• discussing exclusionary rule and exceptions to its application
• discussing distinction between welfare check and detention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. McDonald
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2024-03-08· cited 6×
• State v. Gilliland
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2021-05-14· cited 2×
• State v. Michael Gene Wiskowski
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2024-06-18· cited 1×
• Whigham v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2020-10-09
• State v. Dixon
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2024-01-26
• State ex rel. Kansas Highway Patrol v. Fuleki
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2026-05-15

Cites

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

• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• United States v. Leon
  Supreme Court· 1984-09-18· cited 9,230×
• Brown v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-26· cited 4,589×
• United States v. Calandra
  Supreme Court· 1974-01-08· cited 3,415×
• Nix v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-11· cited 3,080×
• Segura v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-05· cited 1,569×
• Herring v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-14· cited 1,549×
• Murray v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-27· cited 1,424×
• Hudson v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-15· cited 1,222×
• Utah v. Strieff
  Supreme Court· 2016-06-20· cited 423×
• State v. Neighbors
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-04-25· cited 153×
• State v. Hanke
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2018-04-20· cited 122×
• State v. Pollman
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2008-08-08· cited 91×
• State v. Field
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1993-03-05· cited 78×
• State v. Vistuba
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1992-10-30· cited 75×
• State v. Marx
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2009-09-18· cited 70×
• United States v. Hernandez
  Tenth Circuit· 2017-02-09· cited 61×
• State v. Damm
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1990-03-02· cited 54×
• State v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2019-07-26· cited 49×
• State v. Jimenez
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2018-06-22· cited 47×