Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the “‘community caretaker’ or ‘public safety’ doctrine” as an “exception” to the warrant requirement
• recognizing the “modern police officer” as a “‘jack-of-all-emergencies”’ when adopting the community caretaker doctrine
• noting that warrantless seizures are presumed to be unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment
• “During a consensual encounter, a person has no obligation to answer the officer‟s inquiry and is free to go about his business.”
• approach and questioning of defendant walking on highway median was not a seizure, and, even if it was, seizure was justified under public safety exception
• “We adopt [the Lovegren] test to ensure that investigations conducted in Delaware under the community caretaker doctrine are reasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-08-16· cited 131×
• State v. Backstrand
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2013-11-21· cited 103×
• State of Tennessee v. Kenneth McCormick
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2016-05-10· cited 73×
• STATE of Tennessee v. James David MOATS
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2013-03-22· cited 52×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2009-07-20· cited 38×
• Stafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-12-04· cited 36×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-04-06· cited 25×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-13· cited 19×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-09-02· cited 19×
• Olson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-11-28· cited 7×
• People v. Brown
  New York Court of Appeals· 2024-05-21· cited 7×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-03-03· cited 6×
• Dehn Motor Sales, LLC v. Schultz
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-06-26· cited 4×
• Com. v. Patterson, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-11-07· cited 3×
• State v. Harris
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-07-25
• State v. McDowell
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-10-31
• Carello v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-02-08
• Loat v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-02-22
• State of Delaware v. Cody W. Shutak
  Delaware Court of Common Pleas· 2017-09-29
• State v. Hamilton
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-10-12

Cites

54 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×
• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Mapp v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 9,088×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• California v. Hodari D.
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-23· cited 3,670×
• Cady v. Dombrowski
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 2,465×
• Michigan v. Chesternut
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-13· cited 1,499×
• Muehler v. Mena
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-22· cited 937×
• People v. Luedemann
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2006-10-05· cited 525×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-12-16· cited 208×
• State v. Acrey
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-02-27· cited 204×
• Wilson v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1994-04-18· cited 132×
• Bies v. State
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1977-03-15· cited 118×
• Lopez-Vazquez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-29· cited 105×
• State v. Pinkham
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1989-10-24· cited 104×
• Woody v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-01-24· cited 84×