State Supreme Court / Ark.

Sweatt v. State

Decided December 20, 1971. George Rose Smith wrote the opinion for the court.

473 S.W.2d 913 · Cited 51 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Murphy v. State · 130 Ark. 353
State v. Tennyson · 2 N.W.2d 833
People v. Poindexter · 51 Cal. 2d 142
Moore v. State · 299 S.W.2d 838
People v. Stone · 89 Cal. App. 2d 853
Wilson v. State · 124 Ark. 477

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Rios v. State · 557 S.W.2d 198
Cary v. State · 534 S.W.2d 230
Parker v. State · 578 S.W.2d 206
State v. Spraggin · 252 N.W.2d 94
Spears v. State · 568 S.W.2d 492
Lee v. State · 770 S.W.2d 148
Tyler v. State · 581 S.W.2d 328
Neal v. State · 898 S.W.2d 440
Hoback v. State · 689 S.W.2d 569
Young v. State · 598 S.W.2d 74
Bunn v. State · 898 S.W.2d 450
Robinson v. State · 815 S.W.2d 361
Lackey v. State · 671 S.W.2d 757
Moser v. State · 583 S.W.2d 15
Henderson v. State · 255 Ark. 870
Moser v. State · 262 Ark. 329
Leeper v. State · 264 Ark. 298
Spohn v. State · 837 S.W.2d 873
People v. McCarver · 249 N.W.2d 403
Baldridge v. State · 32 Ark. App. 160
People v. McCarver · 269 N.W.2d 186

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