291 Ga. App. 853 - State v. Melanson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2017
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 263 Ga. App. 625 - McDaniel v. State · 248 Ga. App. 582 - State v. Dymond · 252 Ga. App. 414 - State v. Maddox · 261 Ga. App. 228 - Brown 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard for an investigatory stop is well established. An officer may stop a vehicle for investigation if it is justified by specific, articulable facts sufficient to give rise to a reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct. This suspicion need not meet the standard of probable cause, but must be more than mere caprice or a hunch or an inclination. A founded suspicion is all that is necessary, some basis from which the court can determine that the detention was not arbitrary or harassing.”
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.