State v. Jennings

How courts have described this case

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

• observing a defendant discarding a brown paper bag after having seen a marked police car was sufficient to justify an investigative stop of the defendant and retrieval of the bag
• court’s refusal to instruct on absence of flight as consciousness of innocence is consistent with the law
• “The failure to flee, like voluntary surrender, ‘is not a theory of defense from which, as a matter of law, an inference of innocence may be drawn by the jury.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-03-16· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-10-24· cited 53×
• Albarran v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-07-29· cited 50×
• State v. Brunori
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1990-07-24· cited 41×
• State v. Williams
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2008-10-14· cited 27×
• Smith v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2003-12-09· cited 24×
• State v. Otero
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1998-07-21· cited 23×
• State v. Glenn
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1993-04-06· cited 15×
• State v. Days
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2005-06-28· cited 15×
• State v. Holley
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2005-07-19· cited 15×
• State v. Pettway
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1995-08-29· cited 13×
• State v. Villanueva
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1997-03-11· cited 12×
• State v. Ogrinc
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1992-12-15· cited 11×
• Lynch v. Granby Holdings, Inc.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1993-08-17· cited 9×
• State v. Cornelius
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2010-03-30· cited 7×
• State v. Smith
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1997-08-19· cited 7×
• State v. Martin
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2006-11-21· cited 7×
• State v. Seekins
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2010-08-10· cited 6×
• State v. McCormack
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2011-12-13· cited 3×
• Starr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Nevada· 2018-11-21· cited 1×

Cites

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

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Reid v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 1,109×
• United States v. Melvin Telfaire
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-06-19· cited 477×
• Fare v. Tony C.
  California Supreme Court· 1978-08-24· cited 468×
• State v. Hinckley
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-12-17· cited 169×
• Contreras v. Grower Shipper Vegetable Ass'n of Central California
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-19· cited 132×
• State v. Villafane
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1976-09-21· cited 79×
• United States v. Gilberto Santana
  Second Circuit· 1973-10-01· cited 77×
• State v. Carr
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1977-03-01· cited 72×
• State v. Huff
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1987-03-31· cited 61×
• Slicer v. Quigley
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-04-15· cited 56×
• State v. Aversa
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-12-03· cited 56×
• United States v. James Edward Eakes
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-02-19· cited 54×
• State v. Copeland
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-09-01· cited 54×
• State v. Perez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1981-02-24· cited 49×
• State v. Mayberry
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-07-22· cited 40×
• State v. Runkles
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1978-03-14· cited 35×
• United States v. Harold Eugene McQuarry
  Eighth Circuit· 1984-01-30· cited 29×
• State v. Addazio
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1975-08-26· cited 25×