State v. David

How courts have described this case

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

• “an appellate court must adopt the trial court’s findings of fact unless they are clearly erroneous and not supported by any evidence”
• officer’s warrantless entry justified by likelihood that contraband would be destroyed, where officer saw occupant attempt to conceal contraband
• grant of motion to suppress was error in light of uncontradicted evidence that officer saw contraband from vantage point outside apartment
• \an appellate court must adopt the trial court's findings of fact unless they are clearly erroneous and not supported by any evidence\
• officer’s warrantless entry justified by likelihood that evidence would be destroyed, where officer saw occupant attempt to conceal the same in response to police presence at the door
• “[T]he plain view doctrine authorizes seizure of illegal or evidentiary items visible to a police officer only if the officer’s access to the object itself has some prior Fourth Amendment justification.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pledger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-09· cited 43×
• Padron v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-15· cited 29×
• Benton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-09-24· cited 27×
• State v. Peterson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 26×
• Leon-Velazquez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-28· cited 26×
• Welchel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-28· cited 25×
• Wesson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-16· cited 24×
• State v. Ledford
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-11-29· cited 23×
• Tanner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-04-17· cited 20×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-04· cited 16×
• State v. Schwartz
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-18· cited 15×
• State v. Burks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-10-19· cited 15×
• Boldin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-11-20· cited 14×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-20· cited 14×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-26· cited 13×
• Lindsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-12-06· cited 13×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-05-08· cited 13×
• Herring v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-04-20· cited 11×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-18· cited 10×
• James v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-18· cited 9×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Horton v. California
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 2,923×
• Illinois v. Andreas
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 626×
• Tate v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 397×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-07-14· cited 55×
• Carranza v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-02-19· cited 43×
• Merriman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-11-15· cited 20×
• White Missionary Baptist Church v. Trustees of First Baptist Church of White
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-17· cited 19×
• Gates v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-12-08· cited 12×
• Pless v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-09-28· cited 11×
• State v. David
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-06· cited 5×