Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that when faced with a situation where an officer physically restrains an individual by opening his or her car door, “a reasonable person would be compelled to conclude that he or she was not free to drive away and to leave”
• officer forcibly opened defendant’s car door, thus physically restraining defendant’s movement and elevating stop beyond first-tier
• although officers had received anonymous tips that defendant was engaged in drug activity, those tips had not been corroborated and no evidence showed reliability of tips
• although officers had received anonymous tips that defendant was engaged in drug activity, those tips had not been corroborated and no evidence showed 5 reliability of tips
• although defendant consented to search, it was direct product of preceding illegality
• although defendant consented to search, it was direct product of preceding illegality

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• FAIRWELL v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-04· cited 12×
• Heard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-22· cited 12×
• Durden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-08· cited 8×
• Register v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-03· cited 7×
• Butler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-04-07· cited 5×
• State v. Christopher Mrozowski
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2024-05-06
• William Newman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-22
• Brandy Register v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-05-03
• Steve Durden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-08
• James Thomas Heard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-11-22

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Alabama v. White
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-11· cited 3,282×
• Vansant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-31· cited 478×
• Moreland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-05-08· cited 29×
• Akins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-03-11· cited 21×
• Lucas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-03-22· cited 21×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-08· cited 20×
• State v. Lanes
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-21· cited 13×
• in the Interest of M. J. H.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-09-10· cited 8×