Whitley v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• even though police officers were following an accepted police practice, it was proper to prosecute police officers for theft of city property when they served confiscated alcoholic beverages at a police function
• even though police officers were following an accepted police practice, it was proper to prosecute police officers for theft of city property when they served confiscated alcoholic beverages at a police function

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dorsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-30· cited 38×
• Lawhorn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-11· cited 9×
• Soltow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-04-24· cited 7×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-01-31· cited 6×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Reynolds v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1879-01-18· cited 1,827×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-04-25· cited 240×
• Spurlin v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-05-26· cited 41×
• Slack v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-07-08· cited 26×
• People v. Weber
  California Court of Appeal· 1948-03-02· cited 18×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-11-04· cited 15×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-09-19· cited 14×
• Pratt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-09-08· cited 11×
• People v. Nelson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-08-11· cited 1×