Wardle v. Hudson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that police may not stop a driver for a routine license check absent reasonable suspicion of any motor-vehicle violation or other crime
• holding that the random seizure of a driver to ask about license status was unconstitutional absent reasonable suspicion
• discussing the constitutional standards embodied in the Fourth Amendment and article I, section 10, and adopting Terry principles for motor vehicle stops
• discussing the constitutional standards embodied in the Fourth Amendment and article I, section 10, and adopting Terry principles for motor vehicle stops
• stop and frisk of defendant unlawful, when officers neither observed any unlawful or suspicious conduct on part of defendant nor had knowledge of cancellation of his driver’s license
• stop may not be based on “mere whim, caprice, or idle curiosity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).