237 Ga. App. 847 - Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
May 2015
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Bostick · Tate v. State · 226 Ga. App. 714 - McClain v. State · 225 Ga. App. 792 - Pickens 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) law enforcement officer, for his own protection and safety, may conduct a patdown to find weapons that he reasonably believes or suspects are then in the possession of the person he has accosted. A policeman making a reasonable investigatory stop should not be denied the opportunity to protect himself from attack by a hostile suspect. The purpose of this limited search is to allow the officer to pursue his investigation without fear of violence. . . . 6”
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.