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.
“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“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.