Polk 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 that “firearms are considered a tool of the narcotic’s dealer’s trade.”
• recognizing that “firearms are considered a tool of the narcotic’s dealer’s trade.”
• recognizing that “firearms are considered a tool of the narcotic’s dealer’s trade.”
• “[C]onstructive possession may be implied where the contraband is found in a place immediately and exclusively accessible to the accused and subject to his control.”
• supreme court held that a single occupant—the appellant—in a borrowed car or car owned by another was only subject to the general inquiry for constructive possession and was not entitled to the benefit of the increased inquiry afforded those in a joint-occupancy situation
• officer saw “a lump” in the rear passenger-side floor mat, and underneath the mat he found a loaded .380 semiautomatic handgun that had been reported as stolen, and although the gun was not visible without moving the floor mat, the “lump” was something that jumped out at the officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Townsend
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-04-13· cited 40×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-01-29· cited 33×
• George v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-03-04· cited 31×
• McKenzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2005-05-12· cited 29×
• Garner v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-11-20· cited 28×
• Tubbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-05-10· cited 23×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-09-23· cited 21×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2015-06-17· cited 21×
• Block v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2015-02-11· cited 18×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2015-09-23· cited 16×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2003-04-30· cited 13×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2010-06-17· cited 13×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-03-23· cited 12×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2014-10-22· cited 10×
• Newborn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2005-06-15· cited 9×
• R.M.W. v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2008-11-06· cited 9×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2016-05-04· cited 8×
• Dertavious Cain v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2020-10-07· cited 6×
• Pokatilov v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2017-03-08· cited 5×
• Joseph Allen v. State of Arkansas
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2022-03-02· cited 5×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sheridan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-05-03· cited 83×
• Atkinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-01-10· cited 65×
• Fultz v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-06-18· cited 65×
• Durham v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-06-05· cited 62×
• Mings v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-10-10· cited 58×
• Yancey v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-05-24· cited 50×
• Dodson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2000-04-13· cited 46×
• Kilpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-12-18· cited 45×
• Hendrickson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-03-07· cited 42×
• Hodge v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-10-22· cited 42×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-04-19· cited 40×
• Heard v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-05-02· cited 39×
• Crossley v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-01-28· cited 32×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-09-20· cited 29×
• Sublett v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-05-06· cited 28×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-01-31· cited 25×
• Darrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-12-18· cited 18×
• Polk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2001-10-31· cited 2×