151 Ga. App. 46 - Bowers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 1993
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Henry v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Constitution and laws were and are fashioned to protect the innocent and, in the process of so doing, to ferret out the guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bothwell v. State · State v. Butler
How this case has been treated — in progress
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