Dixon v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a claim of error unsupported by citation to authority or convincing argument will be considered on appeal only if it is apparent without further research that the argument is well taken
• holding that the court will not research the law for an appellant
• stating that “[i]n effect the court is asked to research the law and to hold in favor of the appellant if the result of our labor so demands. We must decline that invitation”
• stating, \In effect the court is asked to research the law and to hold in favor of the appellant if the result of our labor so demands. We must decline that invitation.\
• stating, “In effect the court is asked to research the law and to hold in favor of the appellant if the result of our labor so demands. We must decline that invitation.”
• assignments of error presented by counsel in their brief, unsupported by convincing argument or authority, will not be considered on appeal unless it is apparent without further research that they are well taken

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McCambridge v. City of Little Rock
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1989-03-13· cited 247×
• Gardner v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1988-06-20· cited 119×
• Perry v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-11-15· cited 81×
• Lovell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1984-10-22· cited 77×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-02-20· cited 75×
• Duffy v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1986-12-05· cited 73×
• Kitchen v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-11-10· cited 71×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-06-09· cited 68×
• Snell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1986-12-15· cited 68×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-07-06· cited 65×
• Bangs v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-07-13· cited 60×
• Pickens-Bond Construction Co. v. Case
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-07-09· cited 58×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-12-04· cited 51×
• Flanagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-11-30· cited 50×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1986-11-10· cited 47×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-05-31· cited 46×
• Stivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-09-25· cited 44×
• Wooten v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-12-05· cited 40×
• Spears v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1983-11-14· cited 38×
• Tigue v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-12-19· cited 36×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Irwin v. Irwin
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1966-07-26· cited 44×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1969-05-12· cited 21×
• Graves v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1974-03-04· cited 14×
• Hartman v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1975-12-15· cited 5×