State v. Gethers

How courts have described this case

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

• holding child abuse statute clearly did not apply to fetuses and, therefore, did not apply to a mother who ingested cocaine during pregnancy
• holding child abuse statute clearly did not apply to fetuses and, therefore, did not apply to a mother who ingested cocaine during pregnancy
• mother who voluntarily ingested cocaine during the gestation period of her pregnancy could not be charged with criminal child abuse
• child abuse statute did not reach unborn fetus and therefore defendant could not be prosecuted for child abuse based on introduction of cocaine into her own body during the gestation period of her unborn child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Reinesto v. Superior Court
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1995-05-02· cited 34×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-23· cited 29×
• Collins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1994-12-22· cited 27×
• New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. V.M.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2009-07-16· cited 19×
• Ankrom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-08-26· cited 16×
• 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×
• Gaede v. State
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2013-04-04· cited 4×
• In Re Guardianship of JDS
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-01-09· cited 4×
• Wixtrom v. Department of Children & Families
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-01-09· cited 1×
• Jessica Renee Richards v. State of Tennessee and Jennifer Lynne Horine v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-09-02
• Dyfs v. Vm
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2009-07-16

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Love v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-05-09· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-04-18· cited 6×
• Ronbeck Construction Co. v. Rinker Materials Corp.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-09-17· cited 1×