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.

• suspect appeared startled when he saw officer behind him, tried to evade officer, and then returned to his original route when officer no longer behind him
• suspect appeared startled when he saw officer behind him, tried to evade officer, and then returned to his original route when officer no longer behind him
• “[T]he determination of reasonable suspicion must be based on commonsense judgments and inferences about human behavior. All of this conduct. . . suggested that the individual[ ] [was] engaged in criminal activity.” (punctuation omitted)
• startled reaction when spotting police vehicle and immediate evasive action relevant
• startled reaction when spotting police vehicle and immediate evasive action relevant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Black v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-08-10· cited 44×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-15· cited 44×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-25· cited 26×
• Rosas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-14· cited 25×
• Fitz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-10-13· cited 24×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-26· cited 22×
• State v. Felton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-26· cited 20×
• Humphreys v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-09· cited 17×
• Lindsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-05· cited 17×
• State v. Hammond
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-03· cited 15×
• Giles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-07· cited 14×
• Sherod v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-03· cited 14×
• Hampton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-23· cited 13×
• Hendrix v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-21· cited 12×
• Byers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-04-06· cited 12×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-05-21· cited 11×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-25· cited 10×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-01-12· cited 10×
• Prado v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-29· cited 10×
• Arroyo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-05-05· cited 9×

Cites

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

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• Florida v. Bostick
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 4,435×
• Illinois v. Wardlow
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 4,162×
• United States v. Albert Lee Purcell, Shon Purcell
  Eleventh Circuit· 2001-01-16· cited 246×
• State v. Swift
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-06-25· cited 97×
• Lester v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-06· cited 69×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-02-23· cited 60×
• Jorgensen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-01· cited 42×
• State v. Sims
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-26· cited 37×
• Gaston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-19· cited 31×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-01· cited 30×
• Padron v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-15· cited 29×
• State v. Causey
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-31· cited 26×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-28· cited 24×
• Quinn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-06-02· cited 23×
• State v. Ledford
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-29· cited 23×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-06-29· cited 23×
• Attaway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-08· cited 21×
• Faulkner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-26· cited 21×