Jones 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 an officer lacked reasonable suspicion to initiate a traffic stop when there was no evidence that the defendant violated a traffic law or drove in an unsafe manner
• holding that an officer lacked reasonable suspicion to initiate a traffic stop when there was no evidence that the defendant violated a traffic law or drove in an unsafe manner
• concluding that the traffic stop was unlawful since there was no evidence of an abrupt turn, sharp driving maneuver, or other evasive action to justify the officer’s belief that the defendant was trying to avoid the roadblock
• concluding that the traffic stop was unlawful since there was no evidence of an abrupt turn, sharp driving maneuver, or other evasive action to justify the officer’s belief that the defendant was trying to avoid the roadblock
• noting that a first-tier encounter may become a seizure when “in view of all of the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to leave” (punctuation omitted)
• seizure occurred when officer activated patrol car’s flashing lights and blocked defendant’s truck as it tried to exit parking lot

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 66×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-01· cited 27×
• Mitchell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-26· cited 18×
• State v. COPELAND (Three Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-11-02· cited 17×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-15· cited 15×
• Valentine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-08-27· cited 13×
• Wingate v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-10-20· cited 12×
• Watts v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 11×
• LUMPKIN v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-09-28· cited 10×
• State v. Gilmore
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2021-08-24· cited 10×
• Curry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-04· cited 9×
• Hynes v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-05-31· cited 8×
• Stephens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-06-27· cited 8×
• Durden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-08· cited 8×
• Cupe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-06-19· cited 8×
• Gonzalez v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 7×
• The State v. Dykes.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2018-05-14· cited 6×
• Wright v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-15· cited 5×
• The State v. New
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-03-13· cited 4×
• Lewis v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-06-22· cited 4×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• 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×
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,950×
• Brendlin v. California
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-18· cited 1,523×
• Brower Ex Rel. Estate of Caldwell v. County of Inyo
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-21· cited 1,476×
• Vansant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-31· cited 478×
• Morrow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 90×
• Thomason v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-16· cited 82×
• Jorgensen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-01· cited 42×
• In the Interest of D. H.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-01-26· cited 27×
• United States v. Al Nasser
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-02-04· cited 24×
• McKinley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-30· cited 20×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-06· cited 19×
• Richards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-08-29· cited 9×