Washington v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “unprovoked flight in a high- crime area does not automatically equal reasonable articulable suspicion for a Terry stop[,]” but could be used as a “factor justifying a conclusion that criminal activity is afoot”
• describing a decision by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that an officer’s testimony regarding a “high-crime area” “did not add much value to the analysis” because, among other things, “there was no testimony with respect to the area’s boundaries” (citation modified)
• “[T]he protections under Article 26 are coextensive with those under the Fourth Amendment.”
• unprovoked, headlong flight “may allow an inference of suspicion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brown v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-03-01
• Brown v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2024-06-21
• Riley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-08-27
• Booker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-08-28
• Kopp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2026-05-26

Cites

48 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×
• Whren v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-05-15· cited 7,105×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• United States v. Sokolow
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-03· cited 4,647×
• Illinois v. Wardlow
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 4,162×
• United States v. Arvizu
  Supreme Court· 2002-01-15· cited 3,936×
• Alabama v. White
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 3,282×
• Pennsylvania v. Mimms
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-05· cited 3,269×
• District of Columbia v. Wesby
  Supreme Court· 2018-01-22· cited 2,459×
• Rodriguez v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2015-04-21· cited 2,086×
• Michigan v. Chesternut
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-13· cited 1,499×
• Utah v. Strieff
  Supreme Court· 2016-06-20· cited 423×
• Kansas v. Glover
  Supreme Court· 2020-04-06· cited 283×
• United States v. Larry Valentine, A/K/A Hassan Deloa Tch, A/K/A Hassan Deloach, A/K/A Shawn Valentine
  Third Circuit· 2000-11-02· cited 267×
• Ferris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-08-18· cited 231×
• Longshore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-08· cited 157×
• Cartnail v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-06-14· cited 129×
• United States v. Nathaniel Black
  Fourth Circuit· 2013-02-25· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Warren
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-09-20· cited 102×