Mason v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing the denial of a motion to suppress where the evidence showed that the defendant had only consented to the officer’s removal of the box from his pocket, but not the opening of the box, which was not readily identifiable as contraband
• under “plain feel” doctrine, if officer conducting pat-down search feels something he recognizes as contraband, its warrantless seizure is justified
• search exceeded permissible scope of weapons pat-down when officer opened matchbox

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brint v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-10· cited 10×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-01· cited 7×
• Ramsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-05· cited 7×
• McCormack v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-22· cited 6×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-20· cited 5×
• LEWIS v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-05-14· cited 4×
• Shoemaker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-19· cited 3×
• State of Iowa v. Earnest Jones Hunt, Jr.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2022-05-20
• Gerald Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-20
• James McCormack v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-22

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Minnesota v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 2,669×
• Vansant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-31· cited 478×
• State v. Jourdan
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-13· cited 36×
• Patman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-07· cited 31×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-31· cited 21×
• Parks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-06-22· cited 14×
• Parnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-30· cited 8×
• Cartwright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-11· cited 5×