United States v. George E. Maher

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an officer had reasonable suspicion to justify detention of a suspect based on the fact the area was known for gunfire occurrences, the suspect's nervousness, and the fact he clutched his front pocket as he approached the officer
• noting that the suspect’s attempt to flee the pat-down search only increased officer’s suspicions
• finding it was not unreasonable for officer to follow suspect who fled the officer’s request to the suspect to do a pat-down search
• finding it was not unreasonable for officer to follow suspect who fled the officer's request to the suspect to do a pat-down search
• police moved a suspect from his home to his front yard in order to do a pat-down
• nervous behavior was one of the specific and articulable facts that rendered the Terry stop reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Stovall
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2002-01-28· cited 225×
• United States v. Julio Gori, Sorin Pichardo and Victor Rosario
  Second Circuit· 2000-10-18· cited 85×
• United States v. Jones
  Eighth Circuit· 2010-06-08· cited 38×
• United States v. Ellis
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-08-31· cited 28×
• People v. Moore
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2003-07-11· cited 28×
• Snider v. Pekny
  N.D. Indiana· 2012-09-27· cited 6×
• Diehl v. Munro
  N.D. New York· 2001-10-02· cited 4×
• United States v. Demetric Lloyd
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-07-19· cited 3×
• United States v. Ruffin
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2006-08-28· cited 2×
• United States v. Gold
  S.D. Indiana· 1999-11-16· cited 1×
• United States v. Jerome Ellis
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-08-31

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• United States v. David Lee Green
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-06-03· cited 216×
• United States v. Spencer Ray Tilmon
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-03-24· cited 205×
• United States v. Ronald N. Weaver
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-12-09· cited 63×
• United States v. Jeffrey D. Lee
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-01-24· cited 57×
• Mary M., Individually and as Parent/next Friend for Diane M., a Minor v. North Lawrence Community School Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-01-23· cited 37×
• United States v. Michael J. McKinley
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-04-27· cited 34×
• United States v. Frederick D. Wagner
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-09-30· cited 14×
• Lucas v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1986-12-17· cited 10×