Bangs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Thomas v. State (2002), Smith v. State (2003)
85 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on In re Bonner · Dixon v. State · Lambert v. State · Easley v. State · Howard v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e treat allegations of void or illegal sentences similar to problems of subject matter jurisdiction in that we review such allegations whether or not an objection was made in the trial court. Howard v. State, 289 Ark. 587 , 715 S.W.2d 440 (1986). A sentence is void when the trial court lacks authority to impose it. Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Thus, had the appellant presented this argument to the trial court, the trial court could have easily corrected the alleged illegality in the original sentence. It is true that the appellant was not required to present his argument to the trial court in order to receive appellate review. However, on appeal, we cannot dismiss the petition to revoke and thereby allow appellant to benefit from his failure to seek the appropriate remedy by petitioning the trial court for correction pursuant to section 16-90-111. Where an error has nothing to do with the issue of guilt or innocence and relates to punishment, it may be corrected in lieu of reversing and remanding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. State“[T]he remedy for an illegal sentence is not dismissal of all related proceedings in the trial court and release from imprisonment.... The general rule is that if the original sentence is illegal, even though partially executed, the sentencing court may correct it. Lambert v. State, 286 Ark. 408 , 692 S.W.2d 238 (1985) (citing In re Bonner, 151 U.S. 242 , 14 S.Ct. 323 , 38 L.Ed. 149 (1893)); see Gage v. State, 307 Ark. 285 , 819 S.W.2d 279 (1991).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Renshaw v. Norris
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.