State v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that forcing a suspect to open her closed fist was part of a Terry frisk for weapons was justified because the officers could not determine what she was holding and were concerned that she might be holding a razor blade or knife
• \Williams was instructed to place her hands against a kitchen cabinet so a female officer could conduct a pat-down search for weapons.\
• “If ... a police officer is justified in conducting a protective weapons search based upon the officer’s reasonable belief that a suspect may be armed and |7dangerous, such a weapons search would necessarily include the right to search a clenched fist.”

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Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Craven
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1997-12-19· cited 53×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-04-15· cited 27×
• State v. Sylvester
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2002-09-20· cited 26×
• United States v. Moore
  First Circuit· 2000-12-29· cited 21×
• State v. Adams
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2003-01-14· cited 13×
• State v. Wilson
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1996-11-19· cited 9×
• State v. Tierney
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1998-08-04· cited 8×
• State v. Brooks
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1997-02-18· cited 4×
• State v. Craven
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1997-03-18· cited 2×
• In Re Interest of Jabreco G.
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 2004-07-20· cited 1×
• State v. Smith
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2009-12-30

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• State v. Dyer
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1994-03-18· cited 122×
• State v. Grimes
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1994-07-22· cited 106×
• State v. Thompson
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1993-09-17· cited 50×
• People v. Shackelford
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1976-02-05· cited 28×
• State v. Kimminau
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1992-03-06· cited 17×
• State v. Caples
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1990-11-16· cited 17×
• State v. Evans
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1986-07-03· cited 10×
• Weedon v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-08· cited 8×