Gruzen v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• lay testimony about the length of time that a body had been in a pond permitted based “on [witness’s] past experience with drowned persons as a police investigator”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Perry v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-11-15· cited 81×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-05-29· cited 41×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1984-05-29· cited 37×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1984-04-04· cited 28×
• Ruiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1983-07-18· cited 28×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-06-25· cited 22×
• Arkansas Department of Correction v. Bailey
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-01-25· cited 22×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-12-20· cited 16×
• New Prospect Drilling Co. v. First Commercial Trust, N.A.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-04-09· cited 12×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1988-06-13· cited 10×
• Smith v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1983-12-19· cited 9×
• Horne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1984-10-03· cited 7×
• Jacovan Bush v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2024-05-09· cited 7×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1984-02-22· cited 4×
• Devon Romick v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2025-05-01· cited 4×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1997-06-25· cited 3×
• Lytle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2005-06-08· cited 2×
• Jason Lawson v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2026-05-20

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-10-20· cited 399×
• Gruzen v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-12-17· cited 78×
• Finch v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1977-10-17· cited 69×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-03-19· cited 64×
• Westbrook v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-05-14· cited 63×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1981-03-09· cited 34×
• Andrews v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-04-02· cited 17×
• McCroskey v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-11-24· cited 15×