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197 Ga. App. 538 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
March 2013
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Some tips, completely lacking in indicia of reliability, would either warrant no police response or require further investigation before a forcible stop of a suspect would be authorized.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he tip alone `provide(d) virtually nothing from which one might conclude that (the caller) is either honest or his information reliable. ...'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “`the (tip) (gave) absolutely no indication of the basis for the (caller's) predictions regarding (the suspect's) criminal activities.' [Cit.]”
    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.