172 Ga. App. 492 - Felker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2017
13 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · State v. Stephens · 145 Ga. App. 231 - Radowick v. State · Mitchell 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the search is sought to be justified as incident to the appellant's arrest for possession of cocaine or whether it is sought to be justified by exigent circumstances, it cannot be upheld unless probable cause existed for a belief that the appellant was currently in unlawful possession of cocaine. Under the standard set forth by the United States Supreme Court in Illinois v. Gates, [462] U. S. [213] (103 SC 2317, 76 LE2d 527) (1983), probable cause may be predicated on an informant's tip only if, under the `totality of the circumstances,' including the `veracity' and `basis of knowledge' of the informant, there is a `fair probability' that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. Id. at 4716.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Considering the totality of the circumstances in this case, we find that the information disclosed [to the officer] was ... insufficient to establish reasonable cause for a belief ... that the appellant was currently in possession of cocaine. In the first place, there was no disclosure of the source of the informant[s'] information. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is ... well established that such reliability is not [shown] by the mere, unsupported assertion that the informant has provided reliable information in the past. [Cits.]”
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.