State v. Ashley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a pregnant woman who shot herself in the abdomen during her third trimester and whose child was born alive was immune from prosecution on grounds that the common law “Born Alive” Rule conferred immunity on the pregnant woman
• holding that Florida’s construction lien statute (§ 713.30, Fla.Stat.(1995)
• requiring unequivocal statutory statement for abrogation of common-law immunity from prosecution
• “Even where the legislature acts in a particular area, the common law remains in effect in that area unless the statute specifically says otherwise . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Major League Baseball v. Morsani
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-07-12· cited 251×
• Rollins v. Pizzarelli
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-04· cited 121×
• Metro. Dade County v. Chase Fed. Housing
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-06-10· cited 85×
• Jennie McCormack v. Mark Hiedeman
  Ninth Circuit· 2012-09-11· cited 84×
• Bush v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-12-21· cited 81×
• State v. Aiwohi
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2005-12-12· cited 51×
• Florida Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. S.A.P.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-11-27· cited 46×
• Little v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-04-10· cited 44×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Performance Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery, LLC
  S.D. Florida· 2017-09-25· cited 30×
• Steven J. Pincus v. American Traffic Solutions, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2021-02-02· cited 29×
• Kilmon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-08-03· cited 22×
• Barnes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-26· cited 20×
• Citizens Property Insurance Corp., etc. v. Perdido Sun Condominium Association, Inc., etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-05-14· cited 20×
• Bei Bei Shuai v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-02-08· cited 19×
• T.M.H. v. D.M.T.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-12-23· cited 15×
• First Healthcare Corp. v. Hamilton
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-08-18· cited 14×
• Treneka Simmonds v. Connor Perkins
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-06-28· cited 12×
• State of West Virginia v. Stephanie Elaine Louk
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-05-27· cited 9×
• Delta Property Management v. Profile Investments, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-10-14· cited 5×
• COURTNEY ENTERS. INC. v. Publix Super Markets, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-04-18· cited 4×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• Thornber v. City of Ft. Walton Beach
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-10-11· cited 116×
• Basoff v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1977-10-01· cited 102×
• Shands Teaching Hosp. and Clinics v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-11-13· cited 44×
• Peoples v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1888-10-27· cited 39×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-23· cited 29×
• Day v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-03-17· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Hersey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-04-07· cited 18×
• Gaines v. Wolcott
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1969-02-21· cited 15×
• Guam Society of Obstetricians & Gynecologists v. Ada
  D. Guam· 1990-10-13· cited 11×
• Heath v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1970-10-19· cited 5×
• Knighton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-07-29· cited 4×
• State v. Ashley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-03-22· cited 3×
• Hieke v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-10-07· cited 3×
• Richmond v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1963-05-10· cited 3×
• State v. Burlingame
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1924-05-15· cited 1×