Baker v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a jury verdict of the common-law offense of “treating a dead body indecently” when appellant kept the body of an elderly man for five days after his death for the purpose of receiving and cashing the deceased’s welfare check

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Meadows v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-01-26· cited 25×
• Steel v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1969-02-10· cited 19×
• Dougan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-11-13· cited 18×
• Stockton v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1965-03-29· cited 13×
• State v. Hartzler
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1967-10-20· cited 7×
• Lomax v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1970-04-13· cited 7×
• Grissom v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1973-03-19· cited 7×
• State v. Vestal
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-02-17· cited 6×
• Lillian Househog v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2024-06-05· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Browne
  Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas· 1976-04-01· cited 2×
• Hammonds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2010-06-02· cited 1×
• Thorn v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1967-05-01· cited 1×
• Robert L. Wilks v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-12-13
• Commonwealth v. Keller
  Lebanon County Court of Quarter Sessions· 1964-08-19

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cole v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1922-11-20· cited 18×
• Shuffield v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1915-10-25· cited 16×
• State v. Bradbury
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1939-12-11· cited 13×
• Thompson v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1900-06-25· cited 12×
• Security Bank Trust Company v. Costen
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1925-07-06· cited 9×
• Cooley v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1948-05-17· cited 8×
• State v. Phillips Petroleum Co.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1947-12-15· cited 6×
• Hugus v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1924-05-19· cited 5×
• Kanavan's Case
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1821-05-15· cited 4×
• Farr v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1911-05-08· cited 4×
• St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. White
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1936-03-02· cited 3×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1947-12-01· cited 2×