236 Ga. App. 492 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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

1. “[A]n officer conducting a stop remains particularly vulnerable during such a stop precisely because a full custodial arrest has not been effected, (and) the officer must make quick decisions as to how to protect himself and others from possible danger. In determining whether an officer’s conduct during an investigatory stop was proper, the inquiry is not whether the officer could validly have acted similarly but whether under the same circumstances a reasonable officer would have done so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 287 Ga. App. 18 - Patton v. State

2. “Jackson was a suspect in three armed robberies and was believed to be “extremely violent,” and [the officer] knew that the suspect “was going in shooting through the ceiling at people.” Given these facts, we find [the officer’s] actions in handcuffing Jackson for safety purposes “reasonable under the circumstances, and therefore lawful as part of the investigatory stop.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Carr