Lightsey 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 evidence defendant drove off after officers had ordered him to stop was sufficient to support conviction of fleeing a police officer
• “officers are not required to forego their investigation simply because they receive an explanation from a person on the scene”
• \officers are not required to forego their investigation simply because they receive an explanation from a person on the scene\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Horton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-09· cited 2×
• Harold Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-09-23
• Darius Horton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-09

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Short v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-10-05· cited 469×
• Wagner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-05· cited 24×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-04-27· cited 12×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-03· cited 5×
• Lord v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-02· cited 3×