304 Ga. App. 93 - Molina v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Ybarra v. Illinois · 208 Ga. App. 896 - Clark v. State · 255 Ga. App. 149 - Gonzales 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before an officer places a hand on the person of a citizen in search of anything, he must have constitutionally adequate, reasonable grounds for doing so. If an officer conducts a pat-down for weapons without sufficient justification, any evidence discovered is inadmissible under the exclusionary rule. Constitutionally adequate, reasonable grounds for a pat-down for weapons for officer or bystander safety are present when, based on particular and articulable facts, the officer actually and reasonably suspects that the individual is armed and dangerous or is otherwise a threat to personal safety.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the prerequisite determination that the officer actually concluded that the suspect was armed or a threat to personal safety and the officer can articulate a basis for his conclusion so that a Terry protective pat-down would not be unreasonable in the given set of circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the pat-down was lawful, by showing that a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances of the officer would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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