272 Ga. App. 423 - Wright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “Although a tip provided by an informant of unknown reliability will not ordinarily create a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, if the tip is detailed enough to provide some basis for predicting the future behavior of the suspect, reliability may be established if the details are corroborated by the observations of the police.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 276 Ga. App. 683 - Rucker v. State

2. “An authorized officer may stop an automobile and conduct a limited investigative inquiry of its occupants, without probable cause, if he has reasonable grounds for such action — a founded suspicion is all that is necessary, some basis from which the court can determine that the detention was not arbitrary or harassing. 6”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 276 Ga. App. 495 - Lough v. State

3. “[T]he trial court's findings on disputed facts and credibility are adopted unless they are clearly erroneous.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 278 Ga. App. 672 - In Re JDG