United States v. McKoy

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that nervousness during a traffic stop did not permit a finding of reasonable suspicion necessary to conduct a “frisk” of the defendant
• noting that the officer must have a separate particularized, objective basis for “believing that the person is armed and dangerous to the officer or others” to support a protective frisk
• “It is insufficient that the stop itself is valid; there must be a separate analysis of whether the standard for pat-frisks has been met.”
• a traffic violation in a high crime area and a nervous driver insufficient to justify a pat-frisk
• “Nervousness is a common and entirely natural reaction to police presence . . .”
• \Nervousness is a common and entirely natural reaction to police presence ...\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Ricky A. Caruthers
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-08-11· cited 258×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-04-19· cited 110×
• Estrada v. Rhode Island
  First Circuit· 2010-02-04· cited 109×
• Huff v. Reichert
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-03-10· cited 88×
• United States v. Andre Williams
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-09-24· cited 72×
• United States v. Courtney Noble
  Sixth Circuit· 2014-08-08· cited 54×
• United States v. McGregor
  First Circuit· 2011-05-27· cited 53×
• United States v. Robinson
  First Circuit· 2005-12-23· cited 52×
• United States v. Ruidiaz
  First Circuit· 2008-06-12· cited 52×
• United States v. Tinnie
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-01-18· cited 45×
• United States v. Wright
  First Circuit· 2009-09-23· cited 43×
• United States v. Dion
  First Circuit· 2017-06-08· cited 42×
• United States v. Soares
  First Circuit· 2008-03-28· cited 41×
• United States v. Ford
  First Circuit· 2008-11-05· cited 40×
• Doornbos v. City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-08-18· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Cordero
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-06-01· cited 34×
• United States v. Iev, Juvenile Male
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-11-28· cited 32×
• United States v. Marcelo Monsivais
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-02-02· cited 31×
• United States v. Mouscardy
  First Circuit· 2013-07-15· cited 30×
• United States v. Ruidíaz
  First Circuit· 2008-06-12· cited 29×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• United States v. Arvizu
  Supreme Court· 2002-01-15· cited 3,936×
• United States v. Romain
  First Circuit· 2004-12-30· cited 164×
• United States v. Gary Moorefield AKA Maurice Gordon
  Third Circuit· 1997-04-04· cited 128×
• United States v. Dennis G. Stanley
  First Circuit· 1990-10-04· cited 67×
• United States v. Schiavo
  First Circuit· 1994-07-13· cited 63×
• United States v. Cruz
  First Circuit· 1998-08-18· cited 62×
• United States v. George E. Lott and Edward Turner
  First Circuit· 1989-03-28· cited 59×

Other cases named United States v. McKoy

12 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• United States v. McKoy
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-03-04· cited 19×
• United States v. McKoy
  D. Massachusetts· 2004-12-09· cited 8×
• United States v. McKoy
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1978-04-20· cited 1×
• United States v. McKoy
  Third Circuit· 2009-11-03· cited 1×
• United States v. McKoy
  First Circuit· 2005-12-12
• United States v. McKoy
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-12-15
• United States v. McKoy
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-03-24
• United States v. McKoy
  Eleventh Circuit· 1992-08-18
• United States v. McKoy
  Third Circuit· 2006-06-26
• United States v. McKoy
  Third Circuit· 2006-06-19
• United States v. McKoy
  Third Circuit· 2009-11-03
• United States v. McKoy
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-08-01