Smithson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he fact that an officer is interested in an item of evidence and fully expects to find it in the course of a search should not invalidate its seizure if the search is confined in area and duration by the terms of a warrant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Fair v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-07-14· cited 82×
• Celestin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-18· cited 17×
• Jarrett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-08-05· cited 15×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-03-07· cited 11×
• Middlebrooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-02-09· cited 6×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-02· cited 5×
• State v. Goodman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-07· cited 5×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-16· cited 3×
• Jarrett Leopard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-10-10

Cites

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

• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Horton v. California
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 2,923×
• Welsh v. Wisconsin
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-15· cited 1,874×
• Richards v. Wisconsin
  Supreme Court· 1997-04-28· cited 959×
• Code v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-04-08· cited 72×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-12-05· cited 56×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-16· cited 45×
• Pledger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-09· cited 43×
• State v. Jourdan
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-13· cited 36×
• Leon-Velazquez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-28· cited 26×
• Kirsche v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-02-21· cited 26×
• Shaner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-03-04· cited 22×
• Mize v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-01-22· cited 20×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-07-16· cited 19×
• Ivory v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-03-14· cited 17×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-03· cited 17×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-03· cited 15×
• Palmer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-30· cited 15×
• Dole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-26· cited 12×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-10-28· cited 11×