Hill v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• killing people to prevent them from performing legal abortions is not a valid pretense of legal or moral justification
• rejecting the necessity defense to charges of first-degree murder for killing an abortion clinic physician and a volunteer and stating that harm component of its inquiiy cannot be met by legal abortions as a matter of law
• “[A] defendant does not need to possess the technical legal knowledge of an attorney before being permitted to proceed pro se.”
• “[T]he judge was not required to give Hill a lesson on how to try a lawsuit before finding that Hill was making a knowing waiver of his right to counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Roeder
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-10-24· cited 108×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 102×
• Deparvine v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-29· cited 95×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-23· cited 85×
• Pena v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-02-24· cited 78×
• Nelson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-05-27· cited 71×
• State v. Bowen
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 70×
• Weaver v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-12-16· cited 49×
• Zakrzewski v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-11· cited 45×
• State v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-12-30· cited 39×
• McKenzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-01-07· cited 38×
• Potts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-10· cited 32×
• Bozeman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-07-01· cited 30×
• Lawnwood Medical Center Inc. v. Sadow
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-24· cited 27×
• Florida Hurricane Protection & Awning, Inc. v. Pastina
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-09-08· cited 19×
• Rogers v. Singletary
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-11-27· cited 18×
• Albert Holland, Jr. v. State of FLorida
  Eleventh Circuit· 2014-12-29· cited 15×
• McMillan v. City of Jackson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-10-23· cited 14×
• McCarthy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-04-14· cited 12×
• Abreu-Gutierrez v. James
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-01-05· cited 11×

Cites

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

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
  Supreme Court· 1943-01-04· cited 2,192×
• Godinez v. Moran
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 1,916×
• Holly v. Auld
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-05-03· cited 735×
• Wheeler v. Meggs
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1918-05-13· cited 181×
• State v. Egan
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-12-12· cited 140×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 126×
• Van Pelt v. Hilliard
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1918-03-08· cited 126×
• American Bankers Life Assur. Co. of Fla. v. Williams
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-07-23· cited 106×
• Nicholas v. Fenton
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-21· cited 95×
• Hamblen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-06-02· cited 92×
• Michael McMonagle v. Northeast Women's Center, Inc
  Supreme Court· 1989-10-10· cited 89×
• Howard v. California
  Supreme Court· 1992-10-19· cited 67×
• Blair v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-11-25· cited 63×
• Muhammad v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 54×
• Cannady v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-02-24· cited 52×
• Goode v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-09-07· cited 51×
• United States v. Merrie Warren Turner, AKA Merrie Foutz
  Tenth Circuit· 1995-01-24· cited 50×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-15· cited 47×