Meadows v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2008
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Johnson v. United States · Owens v. Commonwealth · Murphy v. Commonwealth · Napier v. Commwonwealth
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is the opinion of this court that under the applicable law of this Commonwealth and under the circumstances where it is used statutorily, there is virtually no difference between being in possession of a deadly weapon and being armed with a deadly weapon."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Luna · Pardue v. State“"A person is guilty of burglary in the first degree when, with the intent to commit a crime, he knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a building, and when in effecting entry or while in the building or in the immediate flight therefrom, he or another participant in the crime: "(a) Is armed with explosives or a deadly weapon; or "(b) Causes physical injury to any person who is not a participant in the crime; or "(c) Uses or threatens the use of a dangerous instrument against any person who is not a participant in the crime."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Pardue v. State““The established rule on the subject is that where the weapon is of such character as to admit of but one conclusion in that respect, the question whether or not it is deadly * * * is one of law; but where the weapon employed is such that its deadly character depends upon the manner and circumstances of its use, the question is one of fact for the jury. [Citations.]” Owens v. Commonwealth, 187 Ky. 207 , 218 S.W. 719, 720 (1920).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Britt v. State
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.