166 Ga. App. 715 - Dennis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2007
21 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 Rakas v. Illinois · Harris v. United States · Wolff v. McDonnell · 126 Ga. App. 123 - Lewis v. State · Johnson 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`On appeal of the denial of a motion to suppress(,) the evidence is to be construed most favorably to the upholding of the findings and judgment made.' [Cit.] The trial court's findings must be adopted unless determined to be clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is well settled that if a police officer has a right to be in the position from which an object is seen lying in plain view, the object is admissible as evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“either under the theory of search incident to a lawful arrest or under that of an exigent situation.”
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.