129 Ga. App. 109 - Brooks v. THE STATE’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 145 Ga. App. 231 - Radowick v. State (1978), Brisbane v. State (1974)
43 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 · 123 Ga. App. 57 - Anderson v. State · 125 Ga. App. 747 - Holtzendorf v. State
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[when] no circumstances at all appear which might give rise to an articulable suspicion (less than probable cause, but greater than mere caprice) that the law has been violated, the act of following and detaining a vehicle and its occupants must be judged as an impermissible intrusion on the rights of the citizen. 10”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a founded suspicion is all that is necessary, some basis from which the court can determine that the detention was not arbitrary or harassing.” [Cit.]’... 'It is clear that the mere stoppage of a car by a police officer is not [per se] such an illegal act that would taint all evidence stemming therefrom...’ ” Brooks v. State, 129 Ga. App. 109, 111 ( 198 SE2d 892 ) (1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“suspected he [appellant] might be up to something that's no good.”
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.