State v. Jefferson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that police unlawfully entered the common hallway of an apartment building when a sergeant \wedged herself in the doorway\ to prevent the defendant from closing the door, which was normally kept locked
• holding that police unlawfully entered the common hallway of an apartment building when a sergeant \wedged herself in the doorway\ to prevent the defendant from closing the door, which was normally kept locked
• determining that an arrest was unlawful where the officer crossed the threshold of the front door by placing her body in the doorway in order to prevent the defendant from closing it
• finding that cocaine discovered during warrantless search incident to arrest admissible at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Sencion
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2018-03-15· cited 19×
• State v. L.H.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2011-06-15· cited 13×
• State of New Jersey v. Dqwan A. Taylor
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2015-05-12· cited 5×
• State v. LH
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2011-06-15
• STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. LOUIS v. WILLIAMS (16-11-0834, MERCER COUNTY AND STATEWIDE)
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2019-08-19
• STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. TEOSHIE WILLIAMS (14-09-0992, MIDDLESEX COUNTY AND STATEWIDE)
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2019-08-29
• Linda B. Brehme v. Thomas Irwin
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2025-01-15

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Payton v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-15· cited 7,618×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 3,736×
• Dunaway v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 3,633×
• Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-29· cited 3,217×
• Cady v. Dombrowski
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 2,465×
• United States v. Hensley
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-08· cited 2,340×
• United States v. Watson
  Supreme Court· 1975-10-06· cited 2,263×
• Nardone v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1939-12-11· cited 1,927×
• Welsh v. Wisconsin
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-15· cited 1,874×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1964-04-20· cited 1,662×
• Murray v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-27· cited 1,424×
• United States v. Santana
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 1,382×
• State v. Locurto
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1999-03-02· cited 859×
• State v. Elders
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2007-07-30· cited 776×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2009-07-22· cited 649×
• State v. Koedatich
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-08-03· cited 379×