Dougan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• sources of common law to be used in construing statutes are Arkansas cases, early English cases, and cases from other states
• “In ascertaining the common law, we look not only at our cases, but to early English cases, early writers on the common law, and cases from other states.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Reinert v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-03-21· cited 33×
• Booker v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-12-03· cited 23×
• Night Clubs, Inc. v. Fort Smith Planning Commission
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-01-21· cited 22×
• McClanahan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2010-01-28· cited 10×
• Howard v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2012-12-27· cited 8×
• Lillian Househog v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2024-06-05· cited 5×
• McClanahan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2009-06-24· cited 1×
• Hammonds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2010-06-02· cited 1×
• Opinion No.
  Arkansas Attorney General Reports· 1997-01-17
• Opinion No.
  Arkansas Attorney General Reports· 1997-07-09
• Opinion No.
  Arkansas Attorney General Reports· 1999-09-01
• State v. Schaeffer-Patton
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-05-19
• Kenneth Alan Vandusen v. State of Alabama
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2023-05-05

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Torres
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-05-26· cited 30×
• Meadows v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-01-26· cited 25×
• Calvin v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-09-27· cited 17×
• Manatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-11-09· cited 17×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1949-10-24· cited 16×
• State v. Pierson
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1884-11-15· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-12-13· cited 14×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-09-12· cited 2×