State v. Smalls

How courts have described this case

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

• search and seizure proper where, while conducting lawful pat-down, officer obtained consent to remove large sum of money from defendant’s pocket
• suspect’s attempt slowly to leave the scene was assessable as flight
• some in group ran and appellant attempted to leave scene slowly but did not voluntarily return; brief pat-down for safety disclosed money which defendant then consented to let the police remove from his pocket; search and seizure not illegal since it was with effective consent
• flight may provide reasonable suspicion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-03-01· cited 83×
• Shivers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-01· cited 39×
• Pittman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-17· cited 26×
• State v. Sapp
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-07-26· cited 20×
• McNair v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-15· cited 17×
• In the Interest of J. L. G.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-07-16· cited 14×
• State v. Ball
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-02-23· cited 13×
• State v. Arroyo
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-02-07· cited 10×
• State v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-04· cited 8×
• D'ANGELO v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-14· cited 8×
• Ransom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-07-30· cited 7×
• Copeland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-04-18· cited 7×
• Bigby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-11· cited 5×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-16· cited 5×
• State v. Davenport
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-23· cited 4×
• Welch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-05-09· cited 4×
• The State v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-11· cited 3×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-08-22· cited 1×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• State v. Strickman
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-09-06· cited 40×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-06-03· cited 38×
• Abdi v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-09-09· cited 36×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-11-09· cited 30×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-03-02· cited 24×
• State v. Abdi
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-03-12· cited 24×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-05-27· cited 13×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-09-03· cited 13×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-12-05· cited 12×
• State v. White
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-04· cited 10×
• Ramsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-05-22· cited 10×
• Deych v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-10-03· cited 10×
• May v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-11-06· cited 6×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-09-12· cited 5×
• State v. Baker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-04· cited 2×