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/Benj Johnson addl cases

Current tasks for court decisions by the Arkansas state courts.


 * 1) Add at least one case decided under each chief justice in the court's history.
 * 2) Add the top 50 or so most cited decisions throughout the court's history. (See the same list.)
 * 3) Add any other interesting cases.
 * 4) Morris v. Williams, 59 F. Supp. 508 (E.D. Ark. 1944)
 * 5) Morris ex rel. Hibbler v. Williams, 149 F.2d 703 (8th Cir. 1945)
 * 6) Yancey v. Faubus, 238 F. Supp. 290 (E.D. Ark. 1965)
 * 7) Simpson v. Weeks, 530 F. Supp. 196 (E.D. Ark. 1977)
 * 8) Simpson v. Weeks, 570 F.2d 240 (8th Cir. 1978)
 * 9) Phillips v. Weeks, 586 F. Supp. 241 (E.D. Ark. 1984)
 * 10) Mitchell v. Globe Int'l, Inc., 773 F. Supp. 1235 (W.D. Ark. 1991)
 * 11) People's Bank & Trust Co. of Mountain Home v. Globe Intl. Pub., Inc., 978 F.2d 1065 (8th Cir. 1992)
 * 12) Morrison v. White, 16 La. Ann. 100 (1861)
 * 13) Daniel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 121 (1857)
 * 14) Gary v. Stevenson, 19 Ark. 580 (1858)
 * 15) Daniel v. Guy, 23 Ark. 50 (1861)
 * 16) Redd v. State, 63 Ark. 457 (1897), subsequent op., 65 Ark. 475 (1898)
 * 17) Robinson v. Holman, 181 Ark. 428 (1930)
 * 18) Bone v. State, 198 Ark. 519 (1939)
 * 19) Bone v. State, 200 Ark. 592 (1939)
 * 20) Johnson v. State, 204 Ark. 476 (1942)
 * 21) Gent Magazine v. State, 239 Ark. 474 (1965)
 * 22) Laman v. McCord, 245 Ark. 401 (1968)
 * 23) Wright v. Wright, 248 Ark. 105 (1970)
 * 24) Collins v. State, 259 Ark. 8 (1975), subsequent op., 261 Ark. 195 (1977)
 * 25) Corbit v. State, 334 Ark. 592 (1998)
 * 26) Arkansas birth-certificate litigation
 * 27) Smith v. Wright 60CV-13-2662, 5/9/14, 5/15/14, appeal dismissed as moot, 2015 Ark. 298 (per curiam)
 * 28) Smith v. Wright, 2015 Ark. 189 (deciding composition of ASC)
 * 29) Smith v. Pavan, 2015 Ark 474 (per curiam) (granting pet. for emg'y stay in part and denying pet. in part)
 * 30) Pavan v. Smith, No. 60CV-15-3153 (Pulaski Cir. Ct.), rev'd and dismissed, Smith v. Pavan, 2016 Ark. 437, rev'd per curiam, /Pavan v. Smith, 137 S. Ct. 2075 (2017), on remand, Smith v. Pavan, 2017 Ark. 284 (rev'g cir. ct. order and remanding)
 * 31) SCOTUS cases arising from Arkansas
 * 32) Lytle v. Arkansas, 12 Ark. 9, rev'd, 50 U.S. 314
 * 33) Paup v. Drew, 9 Ark. 205, aff'd, 51 U.S. 218
 * 34) Merrill v. Dawson, Hempst. 563 (C.C.D.Ark.), aff'd sub nom. Fowler v. Merrill, 52 U.S. 375
 * 35) State v. Curran, 12 Ark. 321, rev'd, 56 U.S. 304
 * 36) Platenius v. State, 17 Ark. 518, 17 Ark. 528, both dismissed sub nom. Beers v. Arkansas, 61 U.S. 527; Bank of Washington v. Arkansas, 61 U.S. 530
 * 37) Thomas v. Lawson, 62 U.S. 331, aff'g (C.C.D.Ark.)
 * 38) Eaton v. Pennywit, 25 Ark. 144, subsequent op. sub nom. Scott v. Eaton, 26 Ark. 17, motion denied, 82 U.S. 380, and judgment aff'd, 82 U.S. 382
 * 39) Ober v. Gallagher, 93 U.S. 199, aff'g C.C.E.D.Ark.
 * 40) Merchants' National Bank of Little Rock v. City of Little Rock, 5 Dill. 299, 17 F. Cas. 48 (C.C.E.D.Ark. 1878) (No. 9445), aff'd, 98 U.S. 308 (1878).
 * 41) Wall v. Monroe County, 103 U.S. 74, aff'g C.C.E.D.Ark.
 * 42) Memphis & Little Rock Railway v. Berry, 41 Ark. 436, aff'd, 112 U.S. 609
 * 43) St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Berry, 41 Ark. 509, aff'd, 113 U.S. 465
 * 44) Sage v. Memphis & Little Rock Railway Co., 5 McCrary 643, 18 F. 571 (C.C.E.D.Ark. 1883), rev'd, 125 U.S. 361 (1888)
 * 45) McKittrick v. Arkansas Central Railway Co., 152 U.S. 473, aff'g C.C.E.D.Ark.
 * 46) U.S. National Bank v. First National Bank, 64 F. 985 (8th Cir.), reh'g denied, 66 F. 518, subsequent appeal, 79 F. 296, aff'd sub nom. Auten v. U.S. National Bank of New York, 174 U.S. 125
 * 47) John Woods & Sons v. Carl, 75 Ark. 328, aff'd, 203 U.S. 358
 * 48) City of Little Rock v. Reinman, 107 Ark. 174, aff'd, 237 U.S. 171
 * 49) Moore v. Dempsey, 261 U.S. 86 (Holmes, J.), rev'g E.D. Ark.
 * 50) Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. v. Porter, 168 Ark. 22, rev'd, 273 U.S. 341
 * 51) Haynie v. Surplus Trading Co., 174 Ark. 507, rev'd sub nom. Surplus Trading Co. v. Cook, 281 U.S. 647
 * 52) St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co., 185 Ark. 824, aff'd, 289 U.S. 76
 * 53) Department of Public Utilities v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co., 194 Ark. 354, aff'd, 304 U.S. 61
 * 54) Cole v. State, 210 Ark. 433 (1946), appeal after new trial, 211 Ark. 836 (1947), rev'd, 333 U.S. 196 (1948), on remand, 214 Ark. 387 (1949), aff'd, 338 U.S. 345 (1949)
 * 55) Parker v. Kern-Limerick, Inc., 221 Ark. 439 (1953), rev'd sub nom. Kern-Limerick v. Scurlock, 347 U.S. 110 (1954), and recalled in part by 223 Ark. 464 (1954).
 * 56) Leslie Miller, Inc. v. State, 225 Ark. 285 (1955), rev'd, 352 U.S. 187 (1956)
 * 57) Bates v. City of Little Rock, 229 Ark. 819 (1958), rev'd, 361 U.S. 516 (1960)
 * 58) Shelton v. Tucker, 364 U.S. 479 (1960), rev'g Carr v. Young, 231 Ark. 641 (196), and rev'g Shelton v. McKinley, 174 F. Supp. 351 (E.D. Ark. 1959)
 * 59) Briggs v. State, 236 Ark. 596 (1963), vacated sub nom. Hamm v. City of Rock Hill, 379 U.S. 306 (1964)
 * 60) Holloway v. State, 260 Ark. 250 (1976), rev'd, 435 U.S. 475 (1978), subsequent appeal, 268 Ark. 24 (1980), denial of habeas corpus aff'd per curiam sub nom. Holloway v. Lockhart, 754 F.2d 252 (8th Cir. 1985)
 * 61) Little v. Arkansas, 435 U.S. 957 (1978) (Thurgood, J., dissenting from denial of cert. to 261 Ark. 859, 554 S.W.2d 312).
 * 62) Sanders v. State, 262 Ark. 595 (1977), aff'd, 442 U.S. 753 (1979), abrogated by California v. Acevedo, 500 U.S. 565 (1991)
 * 63) Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Arkansas Electric Co-operative Corp., 273 Ark. 170 (1981), aff'd, 461 U.S. 375 (1983)
 * 64) Ragland v. Arkansas Writers' Project, Inc., 287 Ark. 155 (1985), rev'd, 481 U.S. 221 (1987), on remand, 293 Ark. 395 (1987)
 * 65) American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Gray, 280 Ark. 258 (1983), subsequent appeal, 288 Ark. 488 (1986), vacated mem., 483 U.S. 1014 (1987) (per American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Scheiner, 483 U.S. 266 (1987)), and injunction granted, 483 U.S. 1306 (1987) (Blackmun, Cir. J.), on remand, 295 Ark. 43 (1988), aff'd in part and rev'd in part sub nom. American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Smith, 496 U.S. 167 (1990), on remand, 303 Ark. 183 (1990)
 * 66) Bennett v. State, 290 Ark. 47 (1986), rev'd, 485 U.S. 395 (1988), on remand, 295 Ark. 472 (1988)
 * 67) Medlock v. Pledger, 301 Ark. 483 (1990), aff'd in part and rev'd in part sub nom. Leathers v. Medlock, 499 U.S. 439 (1991), on remand sub nom. Medlock v. Pledger, 305 Ark. 610 (1991), suppl. op., 306 Ark. 178 (1991)
 * 68) U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Hill, 315 Ark. 685 (1994), subsequent appeal, 316 Ark. 251 (1994), aff'd sub nom. U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995)
 * 69) Drye Family 1995 Trust v. United States, 152 F.3d 892 (8th Cir. 1998), aff'd sub nom. Drye v. United States, 528 U.S. 49 (1999)
 * 70) Jones v. Flowers, 359 Ark. 443 (2004), rev'd, 547 U.S. 220 (2006), subsequent appeal, 373 Ark. 213 (2008)
 * 71) United States v. Atlantic Research Corp., 551 U.S. 128
 * 72) Blueford v. State, 2011 Ark. 8, aff'd, 566 U.S. 599 (2012)