State v. Simmons

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that police officer’s observation of darkly tinted windows on defendant’s vehicle justified traffic stop
• reversing the suppression of evidence found after a traffic stop because “[t]he officer observed a vehicle with dark tinted windows and believed them to be in violation of the statute. That was sufficient to justify the investigatory stop.”
• free air search by drug dog walking around vehicle during lawful traffic stop held valid
• “ ‘The use of a drug sniffing dog to conduct a free air search around the exterior of the vehicle during the course of a lawful traffic stop does not implicate the Fourth Amendment....’” (citation omitted)
• “‘The use of a drug sniffing dog to conduct a free air search around the exterior of the vehicle during the course of a lawful traffic stop does not implicate the 9 Fourth Amendment . . . .’” (citation omitted)
• “[t]he use of a drug sniffing dog to conduct a free air search around the exterior of a vehicle during the course of a lawful traffic stop does not implicate the Fourth Amendment under the United States Constitution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-02· cited 66×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-02-22· cited 22×
• St. Fleur v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-04· cited 20×
• Christy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-04-18· cited 14×
• Langston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-01· cited 12×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-02-16· cited 9×
• Phillips v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-07-15· cited 9×
• Rivers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-09-25· cited 7×
• Rogue v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-08-16· cited 6×
• Acree v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-08· cited 6×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-15· cited 5×
• Hardaway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-04-27· cited 5×
• CROMARTIE v. the STATE.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-02-08· cited 5×
• State v. Jeffrey Williams
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• Robert Stanley Terry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-02-04
• William Garrett Acree v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-08
• Bobby Dail Rush v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-07-24

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Vansant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-05-31· cited 478×
• Ciak v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2004-06-07· cited 22×
• Bowens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-10· cited 21×
• Byers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-04-06· cited 12×
• Quick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-06-16· cited 9×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-05· cited 5×
• Parrott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-02-16· cited 5×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-22· cited 3×