Westbrook 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 trial court abused its discretion in not granting a continuance so that the defendant could acquire records and testimony regarding his mental state
• stating that premeditation and deliberation may occur \almost on the spur of the moment\
• requiring “the evidence presented [to] show[] the accused might be convicted of a lesser offense than that charged or of an offense which is necessarily included in the charged”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• California v. Ramos
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 1,071×
• People v. Ramos
  California Supreme Court· 1984-11-01· cited 256×
• Wiley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-02-13· cited 183×
• State v. Wood
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-05-13· cited 180×
• Gruzen v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-12-17· cited 78×
• Ford v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-05-10· cited 61×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1983-02-28· cited 55×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1981-02-02· cited 51×
• Ruiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1981-06-08· cited 46×
• City of Jacksonville v. Venhaus
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-04-30· cited 46×
• Brewer v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-12-01· cited 32×
• McFarland v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-05-06· cited 31×
• Ruiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1983-07-18· cited 28×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-04-08· cited 27×
• Black v. Van Steenwyk
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-06-18· cited 27×
• Garza v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-09-14· cited 26×
• Gruzen v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-05-24· cited 23×
• Couch v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1981-10-05· cited 23×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1981-12-21· cited 21×

Cites

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

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Sca Services, Inc. v. Hon. Robert D. Morgan, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1977-06-17· cited 166×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1977-03-07· cited 143×
• Caton v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1972-05-01· cited 76×
• Upton v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1974-12-23· cited 69×
• Abbott v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1974-05-13· cited 39×
• Williamson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1978-05-01· cited 38×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1966-10-31· cited 37×
• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1975-12-22· cited 37×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1978-05-22· cited 33×
• Byler v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1946-12-02· cited 32×
• Deason v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1978-03-06· cited 26×
• Stout v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1978-05-01· cited 24×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1954-03-15· cited 20×
• Maxwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1976-01-19· cited 18×
• Andrews v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-04-02· cited 17×
• Thacker v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1973-01-29· cited 17×
• Nash v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1970-03-23· cited 16×
• Hale v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1969-05-19· cited 14×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1911-10-02· cited 13×