Hightower v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a defendant was not in custody where he voluntarily submitted to an interview at a police station, cooperated fully in answering questions, was not restrained, and presented no evidence that officers had placed any limits on his freedom to leave or to terminate questioning
• finding that a defendant was not in custody where he 10 voluntarily submitted to an interview at a police station, cooperated fully in answering questions, was not restrained, and presented no evidence that officers had placed any limits on his freedom to leave or to terminate questioning
• no custodial situation exists where “a reasonable person in [the accused’s] position would have concluded that he was not under formal arrest and that his freedom was not restrained to the extent associated therewith”
• subjective intent of officer during questioning generally irrelevant for Fourth Amendment purposes
• subjective intent of officer during questioning generally irrelevant for Fourth Amendment purposes
• in determining whether a custodial situation exists, the “only relevant inquiry is how a reasonable [person] in the suspect’s position would have understood his situation” (quoting Berkemer v. McCarty, 468 U.S. 420, 442 (104 SCt 3138, 82 LE2d 317) (1984))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Vergara v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-02-25· cited 124×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-03-22· cited 78×
• Rhode v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-01· cited 49×
• State v. Gibbons
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-30· cited 47×
• Sewell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-06-02· cited 27×
• Devaughn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-02-02· cited 24×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-03-25· cited 23×
• Vaughn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-04· cited 20×
• Dillard v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-10-05· cited 19×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-09-13· cited 18×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-11-02· cited 11×
• Henley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-05-03· cited 10×
• Shields v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-19· cited 10×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-22· cited 7×
• Dean v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-11· cited 7×
• Teele v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-12-14· cited 6×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-04-16· cited 5×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-04-15· cited 4×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-10-29· cited 2×
• Anjoure Teele v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-10-18

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Berkemer v. McCarty
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 4,856×
• Stansbury v. California
  Supreme Court· 1994-04-26· cited 2,603×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-05-13· cited 57×
• Hardeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-14· cited 49×
• Hodges v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-10-30· cited 46×
• McAllister v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 25×
• Moses v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-06-27· cited 23×
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-03-09· cited 16×