United States v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “mere physical limitations on an individuals movement, not created by police, are insufficient to turn an encounter with police into a restraint of liberty”
• finding that no seizure occurred in a case with facts similar to the case herein considered
• explaining that seizure analysis must be based on the totality of the circumstances
• finding no seizure where officers approached the defendant from both sides, telephone pole was directly in front of defendant, and wall directly behind
• finding seizure can occur without physical restraint if compliance is coerced and not voluntary
• attempting to flee and struggling with officers indicates no submission to police authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Garcia-Cantu
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-05-07· cited 791×
• United States v. Maher
  First Circuit· 2006-07-06· cited 140×
• State v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2007-03-16· cited 101×
• United States v. Silva
  First Circuit· 2009-01-23· cited 84×
• United States v. Dessesaure
  First Circuit· 2005-11-30· cited 56×
• United States v. Espinoza
  First Circuit· 2007-06-13· cited 56×
• United States v. Williams
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-08-06· cited 53×
• United States v. Fields
  First Circuit· 2016-05-13· cited 45×
• United States v. Am
  First Circuit· 2009-04-21· cited 43×
• Lockhart-Bembery v. Sauro
  First Circuit· 2007-08-09· cited 42×
• United States v. Ford
  First Circuit· 2008-11-05· cited 40×
• United States v. Parker
  First Circuit· 2008-11-26· cited 35×
• United States v. Tanguay
  First Circuit· 2019-03-08· cited 35×
• United States v. Waterman
  Third Circuit· 2009-06-24· cited 34×
• United States v. Tiru-Plaza
  First Circuit· 2014-09-09· cited 33×
• United States v. Holloway
  First Circuit· 2007-08-31· cited 27×
• United States v. Taylor
  First Circuit· 2007-12-21· cited 21×
• United States v. Dapolito
  First Circuit· 2013-04-11· cited 20×
• United States v. Bruno Mancari
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-09-01· cited 14×
• United States v. Jones
  D. Massachusetts· 2009-01-21· cited 9×

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• Florida v. Bostick
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 4,435×
• United States v. Arvizu
  Supreme Court· 2002-01-15· cited 3,936×
• California v. Hodari D.
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-23· cited 3,670×
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,950×
• Thompson v. Keohane
  Supreme Court· 1995-11-29· cited 1,729×
• Michigan v. Chesternut
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-13· cited 1,499×
• United States v. Drayton
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-17· cited 1,084×
• United States v. Hernandez
  Tenth Circuit· 1996-08-30· cited 219×
• In Re Extradition of Curtis Andrew Howard. United States of America v. Curtis Andrew Howard
  First Circuit· 1993-06-30· cited 165×
• United States v. Cortez Avery
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-11-03· cited 164×
• United States v. Santos
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-04-06· cited 162×
• United States v. Sylvester Townsend and David Green
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-09-27· cited 120×
• United States v. Young
  First Circuit· 1997-01-23· cited 119×
• United States v. James A. McKines
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-05-17· cited 110×
• United States v. Cardoza
  First Circuit· 1997-10-27· cited 105×
• United States v. James Buchanon (94-3551), William Reed, Jr. (94-3660)
  Sixth Circuit· 1995-12-14· cited 99×