236 Ga. App. 32 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2013
11 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 Whren v. United States · Tate v. State · Lattarulo v. State · Hutcheson v. State · Lester 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Numerous cases have held that weaving out of one’s lane justifies a stop. Most of these cases focus on the weaving not as a traffic offense but as an indication that the driver was possibly intoxicated, which in this context authorized police to stop the driver to determine if the suspicion, a reasonable one, was accurate. This Court has specifically determined that an officer’s observation of a motorist’s “weaving” may serve as sufficient reason to warrant an investigative stop for a possible DUI violation. Thus the behavior giving rise to the reasonable suspicion need not be a violation of the law. The police can stop drivers who engage in erratic driving behavior, even if it is simply weaving within a lane. 5”
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.