Spight v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “The Legislature cannot ^abridge the power of courts to punish as for contempt in disobedience of their process. The Constitution specially reserved this inherent power in the courts, when delegating authority to the Legislature to regulate punishments for contempts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Henderson v. Dudley
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1978-12-18· cited 39×
• Yarbrough v. Yarbrough
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1988-04-11· cited 24×
• Smith v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1989-05-17· cited 22×
• Morrow v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1971-05-31· cited 16×
• Streett v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1975-11-10· cited 12×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2017-04-27· cited 3×
• Damron v. Damron
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2019-03-13

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Bryan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1911-04-17· cited 9×