DEVON SHARP v. UNITED STATES’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Ornelas v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez
Most-quoted passages
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“is whether, taking into account all of the circumstances surrounding the encounter, the police conduct would have communicated to a reasonable person that he was not at liberty to ignore the police presence and go about his business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he appropriate inquiry is whether a reasonable person would feel free to decline the officers' requests or otherwise terminate the encounter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“giving him a genuine choice to decline the request and stay in the car”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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