85 Md. App. 657 - Allen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2021
2 district · 17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Sokolow · Alabama v. White
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Limited search. — (1) A law enforcement officer may make an inquiry and conduct a limited search of a person under paragraph (2) of this subsection if the officer, in light of the officer’s observations, information, and experience, reasonably believes that: (1) the person may be wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in violation of § 4-203 of this subtitle; (ii) because the person possesses a handgun, the person is or presently may be dangerous to the officer or to others; (iii) under the circumstances, it is impracticable to obtain a search warrant; and (iv) to protect the officer or others, swift measures are necessary to discover whether the person is wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun. (2) If the circumstances specified under paragraph (1) of this subsection exist, a law enforcement officer: (i) may approach the person and announce the officer’s status as a law enforcement officer; (ii) may request the name and address of the person; (iii) if the person is in a vehicle, may request the person’s license to operate the vehicle and the registration of the vehicle; (iv) may ask any question and request any explanation that may be reasonably calculated to determine whether the person is unlawfully wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in violation of § 4-203 of this subtitle; and (v) if the person does not offer an explanation that dispels the officer’s reasonable beliefs described in paragraph (1) of this subsection, may conduct a search of the pe”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that an anonymous informant’s reliability can be confirmed in two ways, both of which demonstrate the informant’s first-hand knowledge which bolsters the inference that he is reporting accurate information. First, the information provided may contain self-verifying details. Self-verifying details are demonstrated either by the richness of the information provided in the description, or by the accuracy with which the tip predicts the suspect’s future behavior. Secondly, an anonymous informant’s tip has sufficient indicia of reliability if a police officer personally corroborates the tip with his own observations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“notorious for its drug activities [and] shootings ... is a factor that may be considered in the totality of the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.