207 Ga. App. 72 - Chaney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 145 Ga. App. 231 - Radowick v. State · 202 Ga. App. 204 - Hayes v. State · 157 Ga. App. 361 - State v. Misuraca · 165 Ga. App. 527 - Edwards v. State · 194 Ga. App. 425 - State v. DeShon
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An officer may take appropriate self-protective measures when he lawfully confronts an individual and reasonably believes him to be armed or otherwise dangerous to the officer or others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The key question in all cases remains whether the protective measures taken by the officer were reasonable under the circumstances.”
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.