Knighton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the born alive rule to sustain a third-degree murder conviction against a defendant who shot a pregnant woman in the abdomen and the bullet lodged in head of the fetus which later died
• affirming a murder conviction of a defendant who shot a pregnant woman in the abdomen, fatally wounding her unborn child, where the child died shortly after birth

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ashley
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-30· cited 36×
• Sitton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 1999-10-12· cited 8×
• State v. Ashley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-03-22· cited 3×
• Virginia Denise Wyche v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-11-05

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-04-30· cited 30×
• People v. Bolar
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-09-21· cited 30×
• State v. Hammett
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-06-26· cited 19×
• State v. McCall
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-11-14· cited 15×
• Love v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-05-09· cited 9×
• State v. Gonzalez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-03-26· cited 8×