Lawson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to permit application of general criminal enhancement statute in conjunction with driving while under the influence enhancement statute, relying on specific versus general rules of statutory construction
• improper for specific criminal enhancement statute to be stacked upon general habitual offender criminal enhancement statute in sentencing for single offense
• requiring application of specific rather than general laws

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lader v. Warden, Northern Nevada Correctional Center
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-10-06· cited 362×
• State v. Anaya
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1996-12-06· cited 72×
• State v. Colvin
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2013-05-16· cited 40×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2005-11-17· cited 31×
• People v. Tucker
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1989-05-15· cited 27×
• State v. Williams
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-06-17· cited 21×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-02-23· cited 16×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2003-03-12· cited 15×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-10-16· cited 13×
• Tims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1988-11-23· cited 12×
• Bown v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-09-18· cited 11×
• State v. Dowdy
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1989-07-07· cited 11×
• Polk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1989-06-28· cited 3×
• Charles Dee Prichard v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-03-29· cited 1×
• Jiles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2002-06-05· cited 1×
• Marlon Tucker v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2023-04-27· cited 1×
• Stubblefield v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2013-12-11
• Opinion No.
  Arkansas Attorney General Reports· 2005-10-26
• Opinion No.
  Arkansas Attorney General Reports· 1992-10-05
• Opinion No.
  Arkansas Attorney General Reports· 2007-03-07