212 Ga. App. 800 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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

1. “As no criminal activity was observed by police, the mere fact that... appellee ‘ran’ inside the apartment when the police drove up did not provide probable cause and/or exigent circumstances authorizing the police to enter Jennifer Tabb’s home to arrest appellee without a warrant. . . . [A]ppellee had a legitimate expectation of privacy in the apartment of Jennifer Tabb. He was a frequent welcome social visitor, he left possessions there, and he had spent the night as a social guest. That he may not have been spending the night on this occasion does not alter his status as Tabb’s social guest. He had been allowed previously to ‘seek shelter’ by entering her house on a recurring basis, and that is what he did on this occasion — he entered her house. As the evidence viewed to support the trial court’s ruling shows, he was not a stranger standing on the street; he was not seen doing anything illegal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 158 N.C. App. 606 - State v. Barnes