State v. Rollins

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 stop occurs when a police officer displays conduct that would communicate to a reasonable person that they are not at liberty to leave
• “[T]he focused warning shout ‘five-O’ contributed to the police officers’ reasonable suspicion that the [suspect] might be engaged in criminal activity.”
• “When reviewing the findings and judgment after an evidentiary hearing on a motion to suppress, this Court will defer to the factual findings of a Superior Court judge unless those findings are clearly erroneous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lopez-Vazquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-29· cited 105×
• Holden v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-06-20· cited 44×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-12-02· cited 42×
• Flowers v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-09-27· cited 19×
• Ways v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-12-10· cited 13×
• State v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-07-10· cited 11×
• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-06-01· cited 8×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-02-03
• State v. Satchell
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-02-15
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-06-25
• State v.Brown
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-10-25
• Cannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-12-12
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-01-06
• Diggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-07-27
• State v. Weimer
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-01-30
• McDougal v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-03-21
• State v. Swanson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-07-19
• Register v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-12-19
• State v. Gordon
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2025-06-18
• Swanson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-12-15

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• Illinois v. Wardlow
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 4,162×
• United States v. Arvizu
  Supreme Court· 2002-01-15· cited 3,936×
• California v. Hodari D.
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-23· cited 3,670×
• United States v. Sharpe
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-20· cited 2,970×
• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• Michigan v. Chesternut
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-13· cited 1,499×
• People v. Souza
  California Supreme Court· 1994-12-28· cited 323×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-12-16· cited 208×
• Woody v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-01-24· cited 84×
• United States v. Johnson, Robert Lee
  D.C. Circuit· 2000-05-30· cited 67×
• Downs v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-01-11· cited 55×
• Purnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-09-16· cited 29×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-06-13· cited 28×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-01-09· cited 25×
• Hicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-10-01· cited 25×
• State v. Williamson
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1987-04-21· cited 24×
• Cummings v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-01-04· cited 11×