Whitmore v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that officer’s approach to make inquiry of vehicles that were already stopped was a first-tier encounter
• holding that encounter was still within the first tier when, after making inquiry of vehicles stopped on the side of the road, officer “requested that [the drivers] move their vehicles to a parking lot . . . so as to avoid impeding traffic and to ensure greater safety” (emphasis supplied)
• alcohol smell alone gave police sufficiently reasonable and articulable suspicion to administer field sobriety tests
• alcohol smell alone gave police sufficiently reasonable and articulable suspicion to administer field sobriety tests
• alcohol smell alone gave police sufficiently reasonable and articulable suspicion to administer field sobriety tests
• alcohol smell alone gave police sufficiently reasonable and articulable suspicion to administer field sobriety tests

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Minor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-06-16· cited 29×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-11-19· cited 25×
• Blankenship v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-14· cited 19×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-09· cited 14×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-02-11· cited 9×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-12-18· cited 8×
• State v. Gauthier
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-21· cited 8×
• State v. Criswell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-05-29· cited 7×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-15· cited 6×
• Ivey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-29· cited 4×
• Myers v. the State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-09-21· cited 3×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-04-21· cited 2×
• McCowan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-01-09· cited 1×
• Arnett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-10-04
• The State v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-06-09
• Lakyia Sexton-Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-03-13
• William Newman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-05-22
• Andre Russell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-12-18
• Davin Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-09
• Kenyoun M. McCowan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-01-09

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McClain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-05· cited 69×
• Chapman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-05-04· cited 19×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-09· cited 10×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-13· cited 8×
• State v. Templeman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-10-22· cited 6×
• Boone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-20· cited 5×