Cummings v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a stapler constituted a deadly weapon where it was used as a bludgeoning instrument
• stapler qualified as deadly weapon when used during robbery to bludgeon victim
• stapler used as a bludgeon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Rowan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-03-05· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Scullin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-04-03· cited 49×
• United States v. Jeffrey Wayne Sturgis
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-02-21· cited 47×
• Zgombic v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-09-13· cited 47×
• Corder v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-08-20· cited 47×
• Parks v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-05-16· cited 43×
• Schalkle v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-11-08· cited 34×
• Timm v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-12-28· cited 31×
• Clem v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1988-08-25· cited 28×
• Lamb v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-05-01· cited 23×
• Rogers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-05-03· cited 15×
• Sammons v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-12-04· cited 15×
• Miller v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-11-24· cited 14×
• Whitlock v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-10-19· cited 14×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Smith, J.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-06-01· cited 14×
• Davis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-01-03· cited 12×
• Perdue v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-12-26· cited 11×
• Robinson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1985-12-26· cited 10×
• State v. Hatwan
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1981-03-27· cited 9×
• Cummings v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-04-29· cited 9×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Maldonado v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1976-10-20· cited 345×
• Poindexter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-04-17· cited 116×
• Burton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1973-02-26· cited 106×
• McAfee v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1973-01-19· cited 99×
• Henderson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1976-03-24· cited 93×
• Jones v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-07-10· cited 54×
• Short v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1954-10-21· cited 41×
• Biggerstaff v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-04-13· cited 30×
• Phelps v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-02-25· cited 26×
• Grigsby v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-01-18· cited 25×
• Jones v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-11-08· cited 16×
• Patton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1969-10-23· cited 6×