United States v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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

• approving limited Terry search of bag where armed robbery suspect was not restrained and officers “by no means had the scene under control or their safety secure”
• approving limited Terry search of bag where armed robbery suspect was not restrained and officers “by no means had the scene under control or their safety secure”
• “Outside the scope of the warrant requirement, the Fourth Amendment demands neither best approaches nor formulaic adherence to one … method over another[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Jimmie White
  Sixth Circuit· 2019-04-10· cited 34×
• S. Baxter Jones v. City of Detroit, Mich.
  Sixth Circuit· 2021-12-21· cited 34×
• United States v. McCraney
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-03-21· cited 24×
• United States v. Michael Clark
  Sixth Circuit· 2022-01-24· cited 19×
• United States v. Anthony Buster
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-02-22· cited 18×
• United States v. Jermaine Kimbrough
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-05-21· cited 10×
• United States v. Smith
  E.D. Virginia· 2013-12-30· cited 2×
• Walker v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-11-29
• People of Michigan v. Theresa Marie Gafken
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2022-12-29
• Valerie Kloosterman v. Metropolitan Hospital
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-08-27
• Devon Lamar Washington v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-04-14

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-05-12· cited 4,572×
• Michigan v. Long
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 3,763×
• Arizona v. Gant
  Supreme Court· 2009-04-21· cited 2,725×
• City of Ontario v. Quon
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-17· cited 233×
• United States v. Raymond Williams (91-1025), Kevin T. Wilson (91-1495/1496), and Beverly Powell (91-1549)
  Sixth Circuit· 1992-05-01· cited 191×
• United States v. Scott Allen Rhind
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-04-23· cited 138×
• United States v. Cheryl Lavonn Flippin
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-03-20· cited 67×
• United States v. Gregory v. Brown
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-01-12· cited 61×
• United States v. David Rowland Lee Vaughan
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-10-14· cited 59×
• United States v. Gillis
  Sixth Circuit· 2009-11-05· cited 53×
• United States v. Frank Landry
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-05-30· cited 47×
• United States v. Michael William Shranklen, John Wayne Fleming
  Eighth Circuit· 2003-02-18· cited 41×
• United States v. Almany
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-03-10· cited 34×
• United States v. Thomson
  Tenth Circuit· 2003-12-30· cited 16×
• McDowell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-02-19· cited 15×
• People v. Jackson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1992-02-25· cited 13×