Evans 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 defendant’s loitering, which entailed slowly circling a shopping center parking lot for 45 minutes in his car, pausing next to certain cars, and never parking to enter any stores, provided officers with articulable suspicion to justify a second-tier stop
• concluding for purposes of attempt to enter an automobile, that defendants went beyond remote acts of preparation when they drove to the shopping center parking lots in search of a specific car to enter
• affirming a conviction for criminal attempt to enter an automobile where the defendants discussed the theft of a car stereo, possessed the tools to commit the theft, and drove to a parking lot to commit the theft
• affirming a conviction for criminal attempt to enter an automobile where the defendants discussed the theft of a car stereo, possessed the 7 tools to commit the theft, and drove to a parking lot to commit the theft
• possession of screwdrivers, pliers, and various car keys combined with act of casing a parking lot sufficient to prove offense
• probable cause to arrest for loitering where, among other things, occupants of car were driving around parking lot for 45 minutes without entering a store and made misleading claims to officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-11-30· cited 32×
• State v. Banks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-12-05· cited 31×
• State v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-04-30· cited 27×
• State v. Lowe
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-10· cited 20×
• In the Interest of J. B.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-09· cited 20×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-07· cited 17×
• State v. Aguirre
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-12-05· cited 17×
• New v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-04· cited 16×
• Kennon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-07· cited 15×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-14· cited 14×
• Stephens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-12-14· cited 14×
• Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-04-05· cited 12×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-22· cited 12×
• Wingfield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-13· cited 11×
• State v. Whitfield
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-11-03· cited 11×
• Heard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-13· cited 10×
• State v. King
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-22· cited 10×
• Ledford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-20· cited 10×
• Pirkle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-06-05· cited 10×
• McCormick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-13· cited 8×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-12-05· cited 56×
• Barnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-08· cited 52×
• Jorgensen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-01· cited 42×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-03-12· cited 17×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-07-14· cited 15×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-05-29· cited 15×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-10-04· cited 10×
• White v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-04· cited 9×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-11-15· cited 9×
• Anthony v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-14· cited 8×
• Hansen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-09-20· cited 8×
• Crumbley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-01-04· cited 3×
• Castellon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-07-15· cited 3×
• RLT v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-10-06· cited 2×
• R. L. T. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-10-06· cited 2×