United States v. Carlton Hightower

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that courts must not look at each fact in isolation but rather must look at the officers’ observations as a whole
• “Even if a single factor identified by the district court, when viewed in isolation, did not support a finding of reasonable suspicion, our precedent prohibits such a fragmented approach to reasonable suspicion.”
• “Even if a single factor . . . , when viewed in isolation, did not support a finding of reasonable suspicion, our precedent prohibits such a fragmented approach to reasonable suspicion.”
• “Although simply ignoring the police cannot be the basis for reasonable suspicion, conduct beyond merely ignoring, such as attempting to flee, can create reasonable suspicion to support a Terry stop.”
• rejecting “a fragmented approach to reasonable suspicion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).