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 the hand-search of a student’s person because he was tardy for school (which resulted in the discovery of drugs in the student’s pocket) violated the student’s Fourth Amendment rights
• holding the hand-search of a student’s person because he was tardy for school, which resulted in the discovery of drugs in the student’s pocket, violated the student’s Fourth Amendment rights
• noting that school officials physically touching the student by conducting a “pat-down” “exacerbate[d] the intrusive nature of the search” that resulted in illegal drugs being found on the student’s person
• “Rather than a search conducted to promote students’ welfare and safety, the policy here operated, in large part, with a law- enforcement purpose. As a result, the intrusiveness of the search under a constitutional analysis is very, very high.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In the Interest of: L.E.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2019-09-10
• In the Interest of: J.M.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2019-10-01
• In re K.P.
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2025-10-14

Cites

24 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×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Elkins v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-06-27· cited 2,501×
• New Jersey v. T. L. O.
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-15· cited 2,391×
• Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-26· cited 1,470×
• National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-21· cited 1,188×
• Ferguson v. City of Charleston
  Supreme Court· 2001-03-21· cited 523×
• Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-27· cited 498×
• Safford Unified School District 1 v. Redding
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 365×
• State v. Lingar
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1987-03-17· cited 172×
• State v. Pike
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2005-04-26· cited 104×
• People v. William G.
  California Supreme Court· 1985-12-05· cited 93×
• State v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1995-02-21· cited 74×
• Jason Shade, Individually v. City of Farmington, Minnesota, a Minnesota Municipal Corporation Ted Dau, Individually and in His Official Capacity
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-11-06· cited 53×
• Coronado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 36×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2007-11-20· cited 33×
• Doe v. Little Rock School District
  Eighth Circuit· 2004-08-18· cited 26×
• State of Missouri v. Charles A. Selvy, Jr.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2015-04-07· cited 20×
• D.I.R. v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1997-07-23· cited 16×
• Hough v. Shakopee Public Schools
  D. Minnesota· 2009-03-30· cited 15×