Dowell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing, in the context of post-conviction relief, that incarcerated pro se litigants have limited control over the timeliness of their filings
• “Our practice has required a pro se prisoner to provide reasonable, legitimate, and verifiable documentation supporting a claim that a document was timely submitted to prison officials for mailing”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-07-10· cited 115×
• Freddie L. McKnight, III v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-12-31· cited 63×
• Erik Morales v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-10-15· cited 19×
• Chris E. Harkins v. Shannon Westmeyer, Jon Niklas, Angie Harkins, and Janet Harkins
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-12-10· cited 8×
• Charles M. Martin v. Department of Corrections
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2018-07-24· cited 7×
• Malcolm Cobb, Jr. v. Aramark Correctional Services
  Seventh Circuit· 2019-08-29· cited 7×
• In re Joseph Bruyette
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2016-01-08· cited 1×
• Jeffrey T. Gorham v. Dana E. Downing f/k/a Dana E. Gorham (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-06-04
• Delmas Sexton II v. State of Indiana: Allen County Public Defender's Office (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-03-16
• Kelvin Underwood v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-06-23
• Robert W. Adams v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-12-15
• Larry Warren v. Carl L. Epstein (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-09-13
• Edward Lee Smith, Sr. v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-10-02
• Dwayne Clemons v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2025-05-14
• Norman Wayne Davis IV v. State of Iowa
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2026-05-08

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Houston v. Lack
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-24· cited 6,563×
• United States v. Kenneth N. Craig
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-05-13· cited 49×
• Marlett v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-12-28· cited 27×
• Cooper v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-07-07· cited 16×
• Dixon v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-02-14· cited 14×
• Dowell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-09-10· cited 13×
• Dowell v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-05-10· cited 8×
• Indianapolis Machinery Co. v. Bollman
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1976-01-12· cited 5×
• Baker v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1987-03-30· cited 4×
• Corkell v. Corkell
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1995-07-17· cited 4×
• Bean v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-11-24· cited 4×
• Dowell v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-06-30· cited 3×
• Goodman v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-11-25· cited 3×