Copeland v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reviewing courts owe “substantial deference” to the common-sense exercise undertaken by a magistrate making a probable cause determination
• “The probable cause test requires only a fair probability—less than a certainty but more than a mere suspicion of possibility—which by no means is to be equated with proof by even so much as a preponderance of the evidence.” (citation and 8 punctuation omitted)
• “The probable cause test requires only a fair probability — less than a certainty but more than a mere suspicion of possibility — which by no means is to be equated with proof by even so much as a preponderance of the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• HENDERSON v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-08-21· cited 24×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-10-25· cited 23×
• Andre Pugh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-03-14· cited 16×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-31· cited 10×
• State v. Britton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-05-16· cited 7×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-03-04· cited 2×
• Neason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-11-07· cited 1×
• State v. Kody Joe Black
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-10-04
• Stitts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2025-11-04
• Badie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-03-17
• Chapple v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-17
• Welsch v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-02-03
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-05
• Shoffner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-05-19

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Tolbert v. Toole
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-11-17· cited 171×
• Prince v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-06· cited 37×
• Yarn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 29×
• COLLINS v. THE STATE (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 28×
• Hartman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-29· cited 25×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-08-10· cited 19×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-03· cited 19×
• Goodman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 16×
• Fisher v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-08· cited 14×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-01-11· cited 14×
• Parrott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-10-05· cited 13×
• State v. THOMAS (And Vice Versa)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-05-03· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-04-05· cited 7×