Donaldson 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 the sentence entered by the circuit court was illegal because the court had no authority to impose a sentence that exceeded the punishment fixed by the jury
• “No defendant convicted of an offense shall be sentenced otherwise than in accordance with this chapter.”
• where this court explained that while a fine of zero dollars is, strictly speaking, no fine, common sense tells us that the words “not exceeding” includes zero when no lower limit is set

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Walden v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2014-05-01· cited 43×
• State v. Colvin
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2013-05-16· cited 40×
• Richie v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2009-12-03· cited 31×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2012-05-24· cited 25×
• Glaze v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2011-11-03· cited 23×
• Reeves v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2008-10-09· cited 22×
• Cantrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2009-10-01· cited 17×
• Cross v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2009-12-03· cited 16×
• Bolin v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2015-04-09· cited 15×
• Johnson v. Kelley
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2019-06-20· cited 11×
• Vanoven v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2011-01-26· cited 10×
• Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2019-03-28· cited 9×
• Eric Romar Stanley v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2023-02-15· cited 9×
• Andwelle Sieed Ellis v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2019-10-17· cited 9×
• Richie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2009-07-01· cited 5×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2016-01-14· cited 5×
• State v. O'Quinn
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2013-05-23· cited 5×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2008-01-23· cited 4×
• John Malone v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2025-02-12· cited 3×
• Handy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2017-02-01· cited 2×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-06-27· cited 61×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-09-25· cited 61×
• Bangs v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-07-13· cited 60×
• Flowers v. Norris
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-02-28· cited 50×
• Mayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-11-21· cited 23×
• Richards v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-04-06· cited 18×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-04-20· cited 16×
• Cooley v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-11-06· cited 12×
• State v. Burnett
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-02-01· cited 11×
• Higgins v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-12-23· cited 9×
• Slaughter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2000-01-26· cited 4×
• Ewings v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2004-03-24· cited 3×