Jefferson 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 defendant’s decision to engage in life-threatening activity was a substantial factor in bringing about the death of victim
• rejecting Jefferson’s vagueness challenge that his flight on the interstate is not encompassed by felony fleeing
• phrase “under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life” is not unconstitutionally vague
• one whose wrongdoing is a concurrent proximate cause of an injury is criminally liable the same as if his wrongdoing were the sole proximate cause of the harm done.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lard v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2014-01-09· cited 56×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2011-11-03· cited 48×
• Thornton v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2014-04-10· cited 34×
• Paschal v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2012-03-29· cited 26×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2015-01-22· cited 25×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2016-05-19· cited 23×
• Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne
  Eighth Circuit· 2022-07-08· cited 23×
• Fernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2010-04-01· cited 20×
• C.B. v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2012-05-24· cited 18×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2008-05-15· cited 15×
• Bowerman v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2014-09-25· cited 14×
• Shaniqua Finley v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2019-11-14· cited 11×
• Whiteside v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2011-09-22· cited 10×
• Flowers v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2008-04-10· cited 9×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2017-04-13· cited 9×
• Schermerhorn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2016-09-14· cited 8×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2016-07-21· cited 7×
• Akers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2015-05-27· cited 6×
• Linquinton Dean v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2021-04-21· cited 6×
• Mooney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2009-09-30· cited 5×

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• Francis v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-04-16· cited 84×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-10-11· cited 73×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-03-09· cited 71×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-01-28· cited 67×
• Coggin v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-03-25· cited 61×
• Haynes v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-11-01· cited 58×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-06-24· cited 57×
• Leaks v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-12-02· cited 56×
• Tryon v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-09-27· cited 51×
• Branstetter v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-09-20· cited 45×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-05-17· cited 44×
• Neff v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1985-09-30· cited 43×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-01-27· cited 42×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-11-11· cited 40×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-02-26· cited 38×