Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that court rules are construed using the same means that are used to interpret statutes
• “may” is usually employed as implying permissive or discretionary, rather 12 than mandatory, action or conduct
• the word “may” is usually employed as implying permissive or discretionary, rather than mandatory, action or conduct and is construed in a permissive sense unless necessary to give effect to an intent to which it is used

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2012-04-26· cited 227×
• Grillot v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-05-22· cited 164×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-05-29· cited 111×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-03-01· cited 101×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-02-20· cited 75×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-04-29· cited 67×
• Laswell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2012-05-10· cited 52×
• United States v. Lancaster
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-08-31· cited 45×
• Owens v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-11-06· cited 44×
• Newman v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-05-22· cited 43×
• FMC CORPORATION, INC. v. Helton
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2005-02-03· cited 42×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2010-01-07· cited 42×
• Williams v. Kelley
  Eighth Circuit· 2017-04-27· cited 41×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2005-04-21· cited 40×
• Lacy v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2010-10-21· cited 34×
• Williams v. Norris
  Eighth Circuit· 2010-07-15· cited 31×
• Dimas-Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2011-12-08· cited 30×
• Holt v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2011-09-29· cited 28×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-04-08· cited 27×
• Paschal v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2012-03-29· cited 26×

Cites

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

• Estelle v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-21· cited 2,305×
• Stromberg v. California
  Supreme Court· 1931-05-18· cited 1,418×
• Griffin v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-03· cited 1,353×
• Taylor v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-30· cited 844×
• United States v. Mason Townsend, Luis E. Diaz, Orlando Nunez, Dorothy Taylor, Carlos Mejia, Joseph Angel Claudio, and Isabel Marquez
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-02-14· cited 392×
• Nooner v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-10-09· cited 122×
• Fitzgerald v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-17· cited 95×
• Kemp v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-04-22· cited 84×
• Gruzen v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-12-17· cited 78×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-10-11· cited 73×
• Bangs v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-09-16· cited 61×
• Davasher v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-01-27· cited 60×
• People v. Guevara
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-01-05· cited 60×
• Lawhorn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-04-05· cited 60×
• McGehee v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-06-17· cited 59×
• Haynes v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-11-01· cited 58×
• Noel v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-01-15· cited 58×
• Ramaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-06-14· cited 57×
• Marcum v. Wengert
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-03-08· cited 57×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-02-01· cited 53×