Meadows v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Booth (2001), State v. Pierce (1989)
31 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 Bouie v. City of Columbia · 2 Cal. 3d 619 - Keeler v. Superior Court · 79 Ill. 2d 103 - People v. Greer · Amadio v. Levin · Ranger 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An early feticide statute, Ark.Stat.Ann. § 41-2223 (Repl.1964) provided that "the willful killing of an unborn, quick child, by any injury to the mother of such child, which would be murder if it resulted in the death of such mother, shall be adjudged manslaughter." ... However, that manslaughter statute, specifically relating to unborn children, was expressly repealed by Act 928 of 1975. Obviously, the legislative intent shown, if any, is that the killing of a viable fetus is not manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chatelain v. Kelley“as the term was used in the manslaughter law. Mr. Meadows, while intoxicated, drove his car across the center line of the highway and struck an oncoming car. The driver of the car and a viable fetus being carried by the passenger were killed. Mr. Meadows was convicted of two counts of manslaughter. On appeal, he argued that the reckless killing of a viable fetus is not included within the purview of the manslaughter statute which refers to causing the death of another”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chatelain v. Kelley“the willful killing of an unborn, quick child, by any injury to the mother of such child, which would be murder if it resulted in the death of such mother, shall be adjudged manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chatelain v. Kelley
How this case has been treated — in progress
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