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← 256 Ga. App. 591 - Osment v. State

256 Ga. App. 591 - Osment v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Alabama v. White · Minnesota, v. Wayne Thomas Carter · Gilreath v. State · 193 Ga. App. 2 - State v. Webb

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

  1. “A police officer who observes contraband in plain view is entitled to seize it, so long as he is at a place where he is entitled to be, i.e., so long as he has not violated the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights in the process of establishing his vantage point.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Generally, a search based on voluntary consent eliminates the need for a search warrant or probable cause.”
    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.