Buffington v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an officer had probable cause to conduct a traffic stop because the defendant changed lanes without signaling while “in front of another vehicle” in violation of O.C.G.A. § 40-6-123
• following proper traffic stop, officer authorized to pat down nervous and fidgety defendant who had recently exited apartment building where undercover drug buy had previously taken place
• if the arresting officer witnessed the driver breaking even a relatively minor traffic law, a motion to suppress arguing that the stop was pretextual fails
• pat-down search for safety was authorized after traffic stop of defendant who had just left area of known drug activity and was acting “ ‘nervous and just fidgety’ ”
• “if the arresting officer witnessed the driver breaking even a relatively minor traffic law, a motion to suppress under the Fourth Amendment arguing that the stop was pretextual must fail”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Kirbabas
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-06· cited 34×
• Tukes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-01-25· cited 17×
• Cotton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-05· cited 15×
• Casey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-14· cited 14×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-12· cited 13×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-06· cited 12×
• State v. Reddy
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-01-12· cited 9×
• Milby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-07-09· cited 9×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-09-24· cited 8×
• Leming v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-12-09· cited 8×
• Sikes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-07· cited 6×
• Bianco v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-21· cited 5×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 5×
• State v. Pritchett
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-07-25· cited 5×
• Gary v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-06-06· cited 5×
• Woodward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-28· cited 4×
• State v. Owens
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-27· cited 3×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-09-30· cited 2×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-19· cited 2×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-27· cited 2×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pennsylvania v. Mimms
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-05· cited 3,269×
• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 46×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-05-19· cited 34×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-09-23· cited 33×
• State v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-04-30· cited 27×
• Sutton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-12-03· cited 25×
• Knox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-01-17· cited 16×
• Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-05-22· cited 12×
• Mashburn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-03-18· cited 9×
• State v. Tinsley
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-01-16· cited 9×
• State v. Sparks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-09-09· cited 5×