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← 267 ARK 1097 - Byers v. State

Byers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1984
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Cobb v. State · Williamson v. State · Whitmore v. State · Butler v. State

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “... Where the subject matter of a requested instruction has been sufficiently covered by the instruction given, there is no error in the court’s refusal to give the requested instruction. Cobb v. State, 265 Ark. 527 , 579 S.W.2d 612 (1979). A trial court is not required to instruct the jury on the law in every possible manner even though a correct statement of it may be prepared by the defense counsel. Butler v. State, 261 Ark. 369 , 549 S.W. 2d 65 (1977). ... Instructions which are cumulative are not necessary.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.