Collins v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant mother did not have notice that her voluntary, prenatal ingestion of cocaine could subject her to prosecution under the Texas injury to child statute
• holding that the defendant mother did not have notice that her voluntary, prenatal ingestion of cocaine could subject her to prosecution under the Texas injury to child statute
• stating that “the Penal Code does not proscribe any conduct with respect to a fetus”
• stating that \the Penal Code does not proscribe any conduct with respect to a fetus\
• holding a fetus is not a child, person, or individual for purposes of criminal prosecution under the reckless injury to a child statute
• determining that the “[ajppellant could not be prosecuted under our current laws [for reckless injury to a child] for ingesting cocaine while pregnant even if it caused the fetus to suffer pain or impairment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Riney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-10-04· cited 260×
• Edinburg Hospital Authority v. Treviño
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-04-18· cited 182×
• State v. Aiwohi
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2005-12-12· cited 51×
• Cuellar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1997-11-06· cited 32×
• State v. Martinez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2006-06-02· cited 23×
• Kilmon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-08-03· cited 22×
• State v. Cervantes
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2009-12-23· cited 19×
• Ankrom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-08-26· cited 16×
• In Re Unborn Child of Starks
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 2001-01-23· cited 13×
• State v. Geiser
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2009-04-02· cited 11×
• State v. Stegall
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2013-04-04· cited 10×
• State of West Virginia v. Stephanie Elaine Louk
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-05-27· cited 9×
• State v. Wade
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2007-09-11· cited 7×
• Gaede v. State
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2013-04-04· cited 4×
• Jessica Renee Richards v. State of Tennessee and Jennifer Lynne Horine v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-09-02
• Quinn Cruz, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2010-07-28
• COMMONWEALTH v. S. ASHLEY RYAN
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2025-01-13

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Bynum v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-15· cited 394×
• Alvarado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-12-04· cited 291×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-18· cited 189×
• Beggs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-04-16· cited 162×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-18· cited 95×
• Texas Department of Human Services v. White
  Texas Supreme Court· 1991-10-23· cited 56×
• State v. Gray
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1992-02-12· cited 55×
• Leal v. C. C. Pitts Sand & Gravel, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1967-10-04· cited 47×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-23· cited 29×
• State v. Luster
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-04-23· cited 27×
• State v. Gethers
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-09-18· cited 15×
• Fogo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-15· cited 13×
• Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1992-12-17· cited 12×
• Vanessa W. v. Texas Department of Human Services
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1991-04-01· cited 4×