Culpepper v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• nervous behavior and suspect’s subtle attempt to put distance between himself and the officer were circumstances that contributed to suspicion authorizing an initial investigatory detention
• nervous behavior and suspect’s subtle attempt to put distance between himself and the officer were circumstances that contributed to suspicion authorizing an initial investigatory detention
• officer entitled “to verify . . . that [defendant] was an authorized driver of the car” during traffic stop
• “when courts are considering the reasonableness of an investigative detention, they properly defer to reasonable inferences and deductions drawn by officers in light of their experience and training”
• suspect’s nervous behavior and subtle attempt to put distance between himself and the detaining officer, in conjunction with other circumstances, established reasonable suspicion to justify an initial investigatory detention
• “So long as a reasonable person, in light of all the circumstances, would believe that he is free to leave, an encounter does not amount to a seizure of the person and does not, therefore, implicate the Fourth Amendment at all.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In the Interest of J. B.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-09· cited 20×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-22· cited 12×
• Hatcher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-15· cited 8×
• Brandt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-24· cited 7×
• Williams v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-11-19· cited 6×
• The State v. Allen
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-03· cited 3×
• Sims v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-02-18· cited 3×
• State v. Snead
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-19· cited 2×
• Harvey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-09· cited 2×
• Elvine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-23· cited 2×
• In Re Jb
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-09
• James Gayton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-11-08
• Shelli Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-22
• State v. Jeffrey Brian Snead
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-19
• Roderick Harvey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-09
• Anthony Elvine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-10-23
• In the Interest of C. B., a Child
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-01-07

Cites

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

• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 60×
• State v. Webb
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-09-25· cited 49×
• Silva v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-10-12· cited 39×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-08-20· cited 36×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-23· cited 26×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-19· cited 25×
• Almond v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-09· cited 22×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-21· cited 21×
• Andrews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-30· cited 21×
• McKinley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-30· cited 20×
• Dominguez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-30· cited 20×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-02· cited 17×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-06-30· cited 17×
• Alex v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 14×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-09-03· cited 13×
• Langston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 12×
• Bacallao v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-01-06· cited 11×
• Megesi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-15· cited 9×
• Rolfe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-30· cited 9×
• Bishop v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-16· cited 8×