Brooks v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a valid consent to a search \eliminates the need for either probable cause or a search warrant\
• noting the lack of an allegation that appellant’s age or level of intelligence rendered his consent involuntary
• “a valid consent to a search eliminates the 9 need for either probable cause or a search warrant”
• “The uncontroverted testimony of the officer who conducted the search showed that [the defendant] was cooperative, even friendly toward him, and offered to assist him in locating the gun.” (footnote omitted)
• consent to search was freely and voluntarily given where, among other things, there was no evidence of coercive police tactics and no allegation that the defendant’s age or level of intelligence rendered his consent involuntary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 117×
• Sommese v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-08-10· cited 37×
• State v. Austin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-13· cited 23×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-04· cited 18×
• Silverio v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-10-13· cited 14×
• State v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-08-27· cited 13×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-05-04· cited 11×
• Prince v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-15· cited 8×
• Crider v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 7×
• State v. Neese
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-12· cited 6×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-30· cited 6×
• THOMPSON v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-11· cited 5×
• Winslow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-11-02· cited 5×
• Adkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-05· cited 4×
• Berry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-01-12· cited 3×
• La Anyane v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 3×
• Handy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-30· cited 2×
• Steve Burgess v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-03-14· cited 2×
• Mitchell v. Stewart
  M.D. Georgia· 2014-06-12· cited 1×
• Perry Lopez Montgomery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-05

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Bumper v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 3,107×
• Samson v. California
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-19· cited 982×
• People v. Robles
  California Supreme Court· 2000-07-17· cited 190×
• Raulerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-10-06· cited 93×
• Dean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-28· cited 74×
• Fox v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 40×
• United States v. Elliott
  D. Massachusetts· 1962-10-24· cited 32×
• Meschino v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-11-09· cited 20×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-03· cited 11×
• Mock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-12-05· cited 4×