Dixon v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• police officer’s mistake of law, no matter how reasonable, cannot provide objectively reasonable grounds for reasonable suspicion
• officer’s later discovery that a vehicle was not required to have functioning fog lights did not render the stop on that basis invalid
• question to be decided is whether officer’s motives and actions at the time and under all the circumstances, including the nature of the officer’s mistake, if any, were reasonable and not arbitrary and harassing
• question to be decided is whether officer's motives and actions at the time and under all the circumstances, including the nature of the officer's mistake, if any, were reasonable and not arbitrary and harassing
• if officer acting in good faith reasonably believes an unlawful act has been committed, nonarbitrary and nonharassing actions of officer not rendered improper by later legal determination that defendant’s actions were not a crime
• officer had good faith, reasonable belief that all lights on a vehicle, including fog lights, must be in good working order; that vehicle was not required to have fog lights did not render stop for faulty fog light invalid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Valentine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-08-27· cited 13×
• Collier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-29· cited 10×
• ABERCROMBIE v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-11-03· cited 9×
• State v. Stafford
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-20· cited 6×
• Terry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-01-03· cited 4×
• The State v. Cartwright
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-10-09· cited 3×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-09-22
• Bobby Gene Valentine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-08-27

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• 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×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-07-14· cited 33×
• State v. Hester
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-15· cited 31×
• State v. Hammang
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-05-14· cited 18×
• McConnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-10-03· cited 16×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-13· cited 9×