State v. Evans

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment does not require officers to testify about how their observations reduce or eliminate the possibility that innocent travelers will be subject to seizures or trial courts to make specific findings on that issue”
• reasonableness standard does not demand officers rule out possible alternative, innocent explanations for actions observed before effecting investigative stop
• police must have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to detain person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Arizona v. Kenneth Wayne Thompson II
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2022-01-19· cited 43×
• State of Arizona v. Christian Adair
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2016-11-22· cited 28×
• State of Arizona v. Francisco Flores Huez, Jr.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2016-08-12· cited 13×
• State of Arizona v. Nicholas Olaf Kjolsrud, Loni Kay Kambitsch
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2016-03-18· cited 12×
• State of Arizona v. Ronald James Sisco II
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2015-07-20· cited 4×
• State of Arizona v. Liwski
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2015-08-28· cited 4×
• State of Arizona v. Angel Pete Ruiz
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2016-04-27· cited 2×
• State v. Lietzau
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2019-03-25· cited 2×
• State v. Turner
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2018-03-15
• State v. Sidor
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2024-10-17
• State of Arizona v. Asalia Guadalupe Alvarez-Soto
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2024-10-21
• State of Arizona v. Asalia Guadalupe Alvarez-Soto
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2025-11-28

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• United States v. Sokolow
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-03· cited 4,647×
• United States v. Arvizu
  Supreme Court· 2002-01-15· cited 3,936×
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,950×
• Prado Navarette v. California
  Supreme Court· 2014-04-22· cited 1,110×
• Reid v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 1,109×
• Curley v. Klem
  Third Circuit· 2007-08-24· cited 307×
• George Karnes v. Thomas Skrutski, in His Individual Capacity Edward Kowalski, in His Individual Capacity
  Third Circuit· 1995-08-03· cited 167×
• United States v. Ronald Cortez Foreman
  Fourth Circuit· 2004-06-04· cited 148×
• State v. Teagle
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2007-11-01· cited 123×
• State v. Gonzalez-Gutierrez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 87×
• State v. Sweeney
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2010-03-30· cited 50×
• State of Arizona v. Alicia Leah Gilstrap
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2014-08-20· cited 17×
• United States v. Neff
  Tenth Circuit· 2012-06-05· cited 13×
• State v. Ramsey
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2010-02-02· cited 10×
• State of Arizona v. Dale Lee Evans
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2014-07-31· cited 6×