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State v. Williams

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Abrogated
Court
Ohio Court of Appeals
Citation
619 N.E.2d 1141
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
95 of 95
Citing cases (total)
969
Treatment dates
1996
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. State v. Williams was abrogated in part on traffic stops, and all 95 flagged citations have been read. The Supreme Court of Ohio's decision in Dayton v. Erickson displaced Williams's rule that a minor traffic violation cannot justify a stop.
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The Third District also declined to follow that rule in Village of McComb v. Andrews. Both treatments are listed below; Williams's suppression-review framework remains unaffected.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

969 later cases cite State v. Williams; 95 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court of Ohio displaced Williams's minor-violation rule by holding that reasonable suspicion or probable cause for even a minor traffic offense makes a stop valid.

    Dayton v. Erickson · Supreme Court of Ohio · filed

    We conclude that where an officer has an articulable reasonable suspicion or probable cause to stop a motorist for any criminal violation, including a minor traffic violation, the stop is constitutionally valid
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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