State v. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing an officer was authorized to request the defendant to perform FSEs where the officer had reasonable suspicion that a DUI was being committed
• finding reasonable suspicion for DUI where defendant was speeding; staggered upon exiting his car; and had slurred speech, watery, bloodshot eyes, and a strong odor of alcohol
• Appellant’s “refusal [to take field sobriety tests] is relevant to show consciousness of guilt.”
• refusal to perform field sobriety exercises admissible as a suspect’s consciousness of guilt and can factor into a finding of probable cause
• “[Defendant’s] refusal [to submit to field sobriety test] is relevant to show consciousness of guilt. If he has an innocent explanation for not taking the tests, he is free to offer that explanation in court.”
• field sobriety tests do not violate any Fourth Amendment rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Ferreira
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1999-11-15· cited 240×
• Hulse v. State, Department of Justice
  Montana Supreme Court· 1998-05-05· cited 188×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-05-06· cited 153×
• Commonwealth v. Blais
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-11-03· cited 56×
• State v. Meador
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-05-15· cited 43×
• State v. Bernokeits
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2011-12-22· cited 40×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-03-18· cited 39×
• State v. Ferm
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2000-08-23· cited 29×
• State v. Mecham
  Washington Supreme Court· 2016-06-16· cited 27×
• State v. Burns
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-08-25· cited 24×
• City of Seattle v. Stalsbroten
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-06-17· cited 24×
• Vanhouton v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-03-03· cited 21×
• Blasi v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-03-02· cited 20×
• McCormick v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2000-03-10· cited 18×
• State v. Mellett
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2002-04-30· cited 17×
• Hourigan v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-01-22· cited 17×
• Origi v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-09-28· cited 15×
• State v. Kinney
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-07-22· cited 12×
• Terence Tobias Oliver v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-04-06· cited 12×
• Kurecka v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-09-29· cited 11×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• South Dakota v. Neville
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 1,275×
• People v. Carlson
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-01-30· cited 92×
• Allred v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-07-01· cited 31×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-09-05· cited 30×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-10-15· cited 1×