State v. Hart

How courts have described this case

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

• misdemeanor arrest by constable acting without jurisdiction held invalid on the basis that constable, even as a private citizen, lacked power to conduct misdemeanor arrest
• There is “no express statutory authority in Vermont for a constable to make a warrantless arrest outside of the town in which the constable was elected, nor is there implicit statutory authority for such an expansion of a constable’s jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Stevens
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-02-23· cited 44×
• McDuff v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-05-04· cited 37×
• State v. LeBlanc
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-12-24· cited 17×
• State v. Stevens
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1992-03-03· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-05-07· cited 15×
• State v. Barber
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-11-30· cited 3×
• State v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-08-04· cited 2×
• Beverly Ann McDuff v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-05-08

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Baldwin
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1981-12-10· cited 66×
• Marshall v. Town of Brattleboro
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1960-03-02· cited 40×
• People v. Vigil
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1986-12-08· cited 35×
• Gortarez v. Smitty's Super Valu, Inc.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-03-14· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Troutman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-27· cited 31×
• State v. Shipman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-05-02· cited 27×
• Settle v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1984-08-08· cited 22×
• City of Cincinnati v. Alexander
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1978-05-17· cited 21×
• Bixby v. Roscoe
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1911-10-09· cited 7×