248 Ga. App. 874 - Berry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An officer must have reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct before conducting additional questioning and searching a vehicle once a normal traffic stop has ended and the officer has told the motorists they are free to go. To meet the reasonable suspicion standard, an officer’s investigation during a traffic stop must be justified by specific, articulable facts sufficient to give rise to a reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct. Although this suspicion need not meet the standard of probable cause, it must be more than mere caprice or a hunch or an inclination.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 256 Ga. App. 188 - State v. Thompson · 281 Ga. App. 101 - Tanner v. State

2. “the critical issue to the validity of a traffic stop is whether the officer had `a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 254 Ga. App. 634 - Bius v. State

3. “[W]e are obliged to point out that the questions asked by the officer are part and parcel of the questioning routinely done by officers in the course of these traffic stops.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 Ga. App. 278 - Henderson v. State