223 Ga. App. 781 - Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
September 2008
most recently cited
33 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 206 Ga. App. 654 - Rogers v. State · Smith v. State · 213 Ga. App. 793 - Roundtree v. State · 189 Ga. App. 218 - Miranda v. State · 217 Ga. App. 339 - State of Ga. v. Montford
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appropriate legal standard for determining whether the additional questioning and the walk-around exceeded the scope of permissible investigation, in the absence of consent, is whether the officers had a reasonable suspicion that [they were] transporting illegal drugs.”
2 later decisions 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.