Sullivan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating that furtive movements by defendant can lead officer to believe plastic baggies contain evidence of crime
• explaining that “State can show that the seizing officer was aware, at the time of the seizure, that contraband drugs are commonly packaged in a particular manner”
• “[T]his Court has held that the viewing of an unopened, translucent pill bottle cannot, without more, justify a subsequent seizure.”
• “a clear plastic bag is not an object that is inherently dangerous, contraband, or stolen goods”
• an officer’s “specialized knowledge, in combination with suspicious facts and circumstances, can sustain the State’s burden of proof’
• a partially unzipped pouch exposing a dark brown bottle and a clear plastic bag containing a white powder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wiede v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-01-31· cited 1,369×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-03-14· cited 126×
• Osban v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 95×
• State v. Demeter
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1991-06-05· cited 64×
• Winkles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-07· cited 52×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-23· cited 35×
• Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2006-02-14· cited 22×
• Lipscomb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-10-25· cited 11×
• Durwin Young v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2018-08-16· cited 7×
• Trusty v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-05-19· cited 6×
• Wiede v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-04-14· cited 3×
• Miller v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1983-03-10· cited 3×
• Oaks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-03-03· cited 1×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-01-27· cited 1×
• David Edwin Wiede v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-04-14
• Arturo Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2006-02-14
• Wiede, David Edwin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-01-31
• Timothy Ryan Richert v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-08-30
• Heriberto Valtierra v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2010-11-17
• State v. Israel Ramirez
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2015-04-27

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-03-10· cited 106×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-26· cited 67×
• DeLao v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-11· cited 62×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-03-25· cited 43×
• Duncan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-04-27· cited 30×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-09-23· cited 11×