299 Ga. App. 788 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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. “the police must have, under the totality of the circumstances, a particularized and objective basis for suspecting [that a] person is involved in criminal activity.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 314 Ga. App. 678 - In Re Jb · 348 Ga. App. 662 - The State v. Preston.

2. “may approach citizens, ask for identification, and freely question the citizen without any basis or belief that the citizen is involved in criminal activity, as long as the officer[] [does] not detain the citizen or create the impression that the citizen may not leave.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 308 Ga. App. 386 - Jupiter v. State

3. “[t]he intrusiveness of a consensual search-including the type, duration, and physical zone of the intrusion-is limited by the permission granted, and only that which is reasonably understood from the consent may be undertaken.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 347 Ga. App. 675 - MARTINEZ v. the STATE.