228 Ga. App. 810 - Buffington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 232 Ga. App. 474 - State v. Kirbabas (1998), 235 Ga. App. 44 - Hall v. State (1998)
28 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 Vansant v. State · 195 Ga. App. 463 - Grant v. State · Jackson v. State · Cheeley v. Henderson · 226 Ga. App. 872 - Brantley v. State
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n authorized officer may stop an automobile and conduct a limited investigative inquiry of its occupants, without probable cause, if he has reasonable grounds for such actiona founded suspicion is all that is necessary, some basis from which the court can determine that the detention was not arbitrary or harassing. A Terry stop must be justified by specific, articulable facts sufficient to give rise to a reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Although a tip provided by an informant of unknown reliability will not ordinarily create a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, if the tip is detailed enough to provide some basis for predicting the future behavior of the suspect, reliability may be established if the details are corroborated by the observations of the police.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`(T)he existence of an articulable suspicion can be based on the collective knowledge of law enforcement officials'; a detaining officer is `entitled to rely on the information given him by a fellow officer in the formation of an articulable suspicion.' [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.