Watkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the reasonable suspicion justifying an investigative stop involves a significantly lower degree of objective evidentiary justification than does a probable cause for arrest
• “[U]se of reasonable force to effectuate an investigative detention of a suspect is not an impermissible seizure under the fourth amendment to the United States Constitution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Borges
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-08-28· cited 162×
• Longshore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-08· cited 157×
• Little v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-21· cited 125×
• State v. Rucker
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-04-14· cited 81×
• Bost v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-10-15· cited 65×
• Barnhard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-03-09· cited 57×
• People v. Wardlow
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1998-09-24· cited 57×
• Snow v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-09-04· cited 55×
• United States v. Johnson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1985-08-05· cited 44×
• In re D.J.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1987-10-19· cited 41×
• State v. Hicks
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1992-08-28· cited 39×
• Dennis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-05-19· cited 36×
• State v. Lemmon
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-01-19· cited 35×
• Faulkner v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-03-09· cited 29×
• Dennis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-03-13· cited 25×
• Trott v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-04-25· cited 23×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1986-01-10· cited 19×
• Mosley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-03-02· cited 18×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-01-12· cited 13×
• Reynolds v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-12-09· cited 12×

Cites

53 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×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Delaware v. Prouse
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-27· cited 5,549×
• Adams v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 5,118×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 3,736×
• Dunaway v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 3,633×
• Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-05· cited 3,591×
• Draper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-01-26· cited 3,191×
• People v. De Bour
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-06-15· cited 2,736×
• Brown v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-25· cited 2,679×
• United States v. Martinez-Fuerte
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 2,153×
• Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
  Supreme Court· 1971-03-29· cited 1,845×
• Commonwealth v. Jeffries
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-26· cited 151×
• United States v. Steven Linwood Robinson
  Ninth Circuit· 1976-06-16· cited 143×
• State v. Lesnick
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-01-07· cited 107×
• People v. Taggart
  New York Court of Appeals· 1967-07-07· cited 88×