Merriweather v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that pellet guns or BB guns qualified as deadly weapons because “the weapons had the apparent ability to cause serious bodily injury and because they were used in a threatening manner, put the victims in fear.”
• affirming convictions for both robbery and confinement where defendant ordered victim to empty cash registers, then continued holding her at gunpoint and ordered her to go to store manager's office
• robbery and confinement convictions presented no double jeopardy violation where defendant entered restaurant, ordered employee to empty cash registers, and continued to hold employee at gunpoint for nearly fifteen minutes before fleeing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Davis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-10-26· cited 107×
• Calvert v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-07-27· cited 39×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-03-07· cited 25×
• State v. Hardy
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-05-09· cited 11×
• Andre Taylor, a/k/a Robert Davidson v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-05-04· cited 10×
• Dee Ward v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-08-15· cited 3×
• Gary Sistrunk v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-05-19· cited 1×
• Buck Gleason v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-03-29
• Augustus Mendenhall v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-02-27
• Kyle Beals v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-07-08
• Rodney Lloyd v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-09-28
• Riccardo Hutchins v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-05-26
• Allen L. Grogg v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-10-21
• Elliahs Lamar Dorsey v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2025-05-14

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Richardson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-10-01· cited 824×
• Wright v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-11-17· cited 328×
• Spivey v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-01-29· cited 273×
• Mitchem v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-09-05· cited 132×
• Hopkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-12-20· cited 92×
• Goudy v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-11-26· cited 76×
• Wieland v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-10-13· cited 51×
• Boatright v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-12-20· cited 49×
• Whitfield v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-07-28· cited 30×
• Harvey v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-11-10· cited 27×
• Glover v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-11-30· cited 25×
• Thy Ho v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-03-31· cited 24×
• Hart v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1996-08-20· cited 21×
• Vanzandt v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-06-20· cited 15×
• Decker v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-03-05· cited 14×
• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-10-08· cited 14×
• Williams v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1983-07-21· cited 14×
• Frey v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-10-31· cited 9×