Hollis 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 told his seven months' pregnant wife that he did not want a baby, then forced his hand up her vagina, killing the fetus
• defendant told his seven months’ pregnant wife that he did not want a baby, then forced his hand up her vagina, killing the fetus
• “Our decision is limited to whether Hollis can be charged with violating this statute____ The much larger metaphysical question of WHEN DOES LIFE BEGIN? is not the subject of this opinion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Booth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-20· cited 113×
• State v. Courchesne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-06-15· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Lawrence
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-20· cited 82×
• Vo v. Superior Court
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1992-01-30· cited 74×
• 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. Oliver
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-06-16· cited 34×
• Cuellar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1997-11-06· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Crawford
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-01-28· cited 32×
• Southeastern Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Inc. v. Gaylor
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1988-09-08· cited 30×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-04-30· cited 30×
• State Ex Rel. Atkinson v. Wilson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-07-09· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Welch
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1993-09-30· cited 28×
• Meadows v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-01-26· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-06-17· cited 10×
• People v. Vercelletto
  New York County Courts· 1987-03-25· cited 10×
• State v. Anonymous
  Connecticut Superior Court· 1986-07-01· cited 4×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• Connally v. General Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1926-01-04· cited 3,272×
• Parker v. Levy
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-19· cited 1,846×
• Lanzetta v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1939-03-27· cited 1,416×
• Colautti v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-09· cited 971×
• Mitchell v. Couch
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1955-12-02· cited 105×
• Presley v. Newport Hospital
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1978-11-08· cited 80×
• Rice v. Rizk
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1970-02-13· cited 45×
• People v. Guthrie
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1980-04-24· cited 44×
• City of Bowling Green v. Board of Education
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1969-06-27· cited 29×
• Orange v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1969-06-27· cited 26×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1936-09-29· cited 26×
• Carolyn A. Wagner, on Behalf of Donna G. Hughes v. Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-07-07· cited 25×
• Heady v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1980-04-01· cited 21×
• City of Louisville v. Stuckenborg
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1968-12-13· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. McKinney
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1979-07-13· cited 16×
• Easley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1958-10-31· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1921-05-24· cited 10×