Meadows v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant who broke into a residence and stole a firearm was armed with a deadly weapon, and therefore was guilty of first degree burglary
• \[c]ertainly the possession of a deadly weapon inside a dwelling or any other building during the course of a burglary or while fleeing therefrom is `indicative of . . . potential dangerousness'\ (alteration in original)
• “[c]ertainly the possession of a deadly weapon inside a dwelling or any other building during the course of a burglary or while fleeing therefrom is ‘indicative of . . . potential dangerousness’ ” (alteration in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Brown
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-12-13· cited 83×
• Pardue v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1990-06-22· cited 74×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-02-16· cited 46×
• Buchannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-05-12· cited 34×
• State v. Luna
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1982-11-18· cited 25×
• State v. Padilla
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1996-05-20· cited 25×
• State v. Merritt
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-04-23· cited 24×
• Wesolic v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1992-07-17· cited 20×
• Daugherty v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-10-31· cited 19×
• People v. Loomis
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1992-12-31· cited 18×
• Bates v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-03-26· cited 17×
• Britt v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1987-04-01· cited 13×
• State v. McCaskill
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-03-04· cited 10×
• State v. Sales
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2008-06-26· cited 3×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1943-03-15· cited 570×
• Owens v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1920-02-27· cited 14×
• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1934-10-12· cited 11×
• Napier v. Commwonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1962-04-20· cited 3×