178 Ga. App. 31 - Galloway v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2014
24 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 Katz v. United States · Ker v. State of California · Harris v. United States · United States v. Dionisio · Cardwell v. Lewis
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] police officer who observes contraband in plain view is entitled to seize it, so long as he is at a place where he is entitled to be, i.e., so long as he has not violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights in the process of establishing his vantage point. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“visually search the entirety of a car from his vantage point on a street or roadside,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he viewing need not be motivated by any articulable suspicion.”
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.