Brown v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing grant of motion to suppress and finding lack of probable cause when officer observed nothing more than “nervousness, ... furtive attempts at concealment, and the paper which was the object of that furtive behavior.”
• reversing grant of motion to suppress and finding lack of probable cause when officer observed nothing more than “nervousness, . . . furtive attempts at concealment, and the paper which was the object of that furtive behavior.”
• probable cause requires merely a probability - less than a certainty but more than a mere suspicion or possibility
• “Observation of what reasonably appear to be furtive gestures is a factor which may properly be taken into account in determining whether probable cause exists”
• “[o]bservation of what reasonably appear to be furtive gestures is a factor which may properly be taken into account in determining whether probable cause exists”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2003-04-09· cited 253×
• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-03-19· cited 117×
• State v. Lejeune
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-10· cited 54×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 44×
• Silva v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-12· cited 39×
• State v. Tye
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-05· cited 33×
• Fernandez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-17· cited 25×
• State v. Menezes
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-07-03· cited 21×
• Barraco v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-07· cited 16×
• Sherod v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-03· cited 14×
• Payne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-06-30· cited 13×
• State v. Monroe
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2014-11-19· cited 11×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-08-06· cited 10×
• Stroud v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 9×
• George v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-11-02· cited 9×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-08· cited 8×
• Burgess v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-04· cited 8×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-02-17· cited 7×
• State v. Burnett
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-24· cited 7×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-02· cited 7×

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Horton v. California
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 2,923×
• Arizona v. Hicks
  Supreme Court· 1987-03-03· cited 1,525×
• State v. Webb
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-09-25· cited 49×
• State v. Holmes
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-05-03· cited 30×
• Holt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-05· cited 30×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-05-04· cited 27×
• McDonald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-10-01· cited 26×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-10· cited 24×
• Sams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-06-05· cited 20×
• Wells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-14· cited 20×
• State v. Jarrells
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-01-29· cited 20×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-06-20· cited 16×
• State v. Hodges
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-07-16· cited 16×
• State v. White
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-30· cited 15×
• State v. King
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-05-02· cited 13×
• State v. Browning
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-24· cited 13×
• Dixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-09-04· cited 12×
• Fuqua v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1977-06-08· cited 12×
• Durden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-02-07· cited 9×
• State v. Estrado
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-04-19· cited 7×