McKenzie 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 prosecutor’s cross-examination of defendant about his mother’s alleged statement that he had been accused of a crime in Jamaica was not the sort of error that fell within third Wicks exception
• holding that the odor of marijuana in the courtroom was not unduly prejudicial where the marijuana was removed from the courtroom at the end of the testimony of the three witnesses who had been in contact with it
• refusing to apply third Wicks exception in the case of alleged improper cross-examination and closing argument
• refusing to apply the third exception in the case of alleged improper cross-examination and closing argument even though the court “express[ed] serious concern” over the prosecutor’s “overly aggressive conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Chunestudy v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2012-05-24· cited 55×
• Springs v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-12-07· cited 36×
• Malone v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2005-11-17· cited 29×
• Maiden v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2014-06-26· cited 23×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2016-09-15· cited 15×
• McCastle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2012-02-22· cited 11×
• Rackley v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-11-08· cited 10×
• Matlock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2015-02-04· cited 10×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2008-05-29· cited 8×
• Duggar v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2013-02-27· cited 6×
• Dertavious Cain v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2020-10-07· cited 6×
• Pascuzzi v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2016-04-20· cited 5×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2016-05-11· cited 4×
• Holloway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2010-11-17· cited 4×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2013-05-15· cited 4×
• Dotson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2013-10-02· cited 3×
• Bobby Wyles v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2024-09-19· cited 3×
• Ke'von Turner v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2024-11-21· cited 3×
• Dishman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2011-06-15· cited 2×
• Pokatilov v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2017-11-30· cited 1×

Cites

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

• Wicks v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-10-20· cited 399×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-05-29· cited 111×
• Buckley v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-05-30· cited 74×
• Plotts v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1988-11-14· cited 74×
• Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1905-02-18· cited 66×
• Mings v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-10-10· cited 58×
• Polk v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-05-02· cited 55×
• United States v. Fernando Morales
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-08-19· cited 54×
• United States v. Juan Garcia
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-02-24· cited 54×
• Calnan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-11-02· cited 52×
• Sera v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-05-25· cited 50×
• Baughman v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-05-01· cited 50×
• Hale v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-12-07· cited 49×
• Harding v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1910-02-28· cited 45×
• Winkle v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-11-02· cited 43×
• Hodge v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-10-22· cited 42×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-02-26· cited 38×
• Nichols v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-09-16· cited 36×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1977-06-20· cited 34×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-04-07· cited 32×