Booker v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “The first and most important rule of statutory interpretation is that a statute is presumed constitutional and all doubts are resolved in favor of constitutionality.”
• the standard by which we determine when a statute is void for vagueness is whether it lacks ascertainable standards of guilt such that persons of average intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gregory v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-05-04· cited 48×
• Talbert v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-09-21· cited 35×
• Reinert v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-03-21· cited 33×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-06-28· cited 32×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-04-15· cited 19×
• McDaniel v. Spencer
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2015-03-05· cited 15×
• Edward Joseph Reynolds v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2020-04-30· cited 15×
• Arkansas Times LP v. Mark Waldrip
  Eighth Circuit· 2022-06-22· cited 12×
• Bynum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2018-03-14· cited 10×
• Bio Gen LLC v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
  Eighth Circuit· 2025-06-24· cited 9×
• Armour v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2016-12-14· cited 7×
• Mooney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2009-09-30· cited 5×
• Laster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2002-01-16· cited 5×
• Benton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2012-01-18· cited 4×
• Arkansas Times LP v. Mark Waldrip
  Eighth Circuit· 2021-02-12· cited 3×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2009-06-24· cited 2×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2015-02-04· cited 2×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2011-02-09· cited 1×
• Steffy v. City of Fort Smith
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2018-03-07· cited 1×
• Iqbal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2011-03-16

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Eldon Gene Nattier, United States of America v. James Franklin Coley
  Eighth Circuit· 1997-10-03· cited 57×
• Goff v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-09-18· cited 57×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-11-08· cited 35×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-02-18· cited 28×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-09-09· cited 27×
• Starling v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-03-26· cited 25×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-10-04· cited 24×
• Dougan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-11-13· cited 18×
• Vista Development Joint Venture II v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1992-01-02· cited 14×
• McDougal v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-05-13· cited 13×
• Akbar v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-01-31· cited 11×
• Tucker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1995-07-05· cited 11×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1980-04-30· cited 10×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-02-12· cited 6×