United States v. Jessie Jerome Perkins, Jr., Johnny Lewis Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that nervousness does not always give rise to reasonable suspicion because “a traffic stop is an ‘unsettling show of authority’ that may ‘create substantial anxi- ety’”
• discussing different levels of “Fourth Amendment scrutiny” depending on which type of seizure was conducted
• “A traffic stop may be prolonged where an officer is able to articulate a reasonable suspicion of other illegal activity beyond the traffic offense.”
• “A traffic stop may be prolonged where an officer is able to articulate a reasonable suspicion of other illegal activity beyond the traffic offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).