McClain 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 first-tier encounter when police officer did not activate blue lights before approaching stopped vehicle and asking driver for identification
• a \seizure\ occurred where officer pulled up in the parking lot, activated his emergency warning lights, and approached the truck with his hand on his firearm
• once the officer noticed the odor of alcohol, he had the required articulable suspicion to continue his inquiry
• once the officer noticed the odor of alcohol, he had the required articulable suspicion to continue his inquiry
• officers pulling up beside stopped vehicle in police car without activating blue lights and approaching suspect to ask questions constituted a mere first-tier interaction and did not require reasonable suspicion
• improper bolstering refers to character evidence intended to show a witness’s veracity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Folk
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-24· cited 64×
• Pollard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-01-14· cited 57×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-07-16· cited 35×
• State v. Kirbabas
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-05-06· cited 34×
• Stokes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-25· cited 34×
• Childress v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-11· cited 29×
• Brittian v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-04· cited 27×
• Peters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-16· cited 26×
• Whitmore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-07· cited 22×
• Goldey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-01-16· cited 22×
• Akins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-11· cited 21×
• Holmes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-02· cited 21×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-19· cited 20×
• State v. Kwiatkowski
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-02· cited 20×
• Carrera v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-05-07· cited 20×
• Chapman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-04· cited 19×
• Blankenship v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-14· cited 19×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-07-02· cited 17×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-06· cited 17×
• MacKey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-11-05· cited 15×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Tarwid v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-11-16· cited 73×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-06· cited 56×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-11-23· cited 55×
• Jorgensen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-01· cited 42×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-05-23· cited 37×
• VonLinsowe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-23· cited 35×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-09-28· cited 31×
• State v. Banks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-12-05· cited 31×
• Elrod v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-10· cited 29×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-09-08· cited 29×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-12-05· cited 28×
• State v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-04-30· cited 27×
• Blige v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-04-18· cited 27×
• State v. Goodman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-12· cited 25×
• Kimbrough v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-21· cited 25×
• McKinley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-06-30· cited 20×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-07· cited 19×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-07-01· cited 17×