Meadows v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to create a common-law crime for the reckless killing of an unborn fetus when the legislative intent shown, if any, is that the killing of a viable fetus is not manslaughter
• declining to create a common-law crime for the reckless killing of an unborn fetus when the legislative intent shown, if any, is that the killing of a viable fetus is not manslaughter
• comment that the basic issue was witness credibility — whether the jury would believe the State’s witnesses or the defendant
• “[i]n ascertaining the common law, we look not only to our own cases, but to early English cases, early writers on the common law, and cases from other states”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Booth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-20· cited 113×
• State v. Pierce
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1989-04-27· cited 96×
• State v. Courchesne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-06-15· cited 86×
• Vo v. Superior Court
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1992-01-30· cited 74×
• People v. Davis
  California Supreme Court· 1994-05-16· cited 68×
• AKA v. Jefferson Hosp. Ass'n, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-05-10· cited 68×
• Rankin v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-07-14· cited 67×
• State v. Trudell
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1988-04-29· cited 34×
• State v. Oliver
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-06-16· cited 34×
• Caldwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-01-17· cited 27×
• State v. Holcomb
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1997-09-09· cited 26×
• Chatelain v. Kelley
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-11-20· cited 22×
• Dougan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-11-13· cited 18×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1989-03-06· cited 14×
• Arms. v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2015-10-08· cited 12×
• People v. Vercelletto
  New York County Courts· 1987-03-25· cited 10×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2018-10-03· cited 6×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-10-22· cited 6×

Cites

36 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bouie v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,779×
• Keeler v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1970-06-12· cited 360×
• People v. Greer
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-02-22· cited 298×
• Ranger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-06· cited 98×
• Mone v. Greyhound Lines, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-07-16· cited 94×
• Amadio v. Levin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-12-04· cited 90×
• State v. Soto
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1985-12-06· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Cass
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-16· cited 67×
• State v. Dickinson
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1971-11-24· cited 63×
• State v. Horne
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-08-17· cited 57×
• People v. Guthrie
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1980-04-24· cited 44×
• Bennett v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1963-01-11· cited 39×
• Sparrow v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1985-01-21· cited 35×
• State v. Gyles
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1975-05-29· cited 35×
• Hollis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 34×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1974-05-28· cited 34×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 32×
• State v. Larsen
  Utah Supreme Court· 1978-04-19· cited 31×
• State Ex Rel. Atkinson v. Wilson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-07-09· cited 29×
• State v. Doyle
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1980-01-03· cited 26×