Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing involuntary manslaughter conviction after unattended childbirth due to absence of evidence that any act of the defendant had caused the death
• where a mother left her baby near a heater for a short period of time following an unattended birth and thereafter attempted to conceal the body because she did not want her family to know about the birth, the court reversed a conviction of involuntary manslaughter
• where a mother left her baby near a heater for a short period of time following an unattended birth and thereafter attempted to conceal the body because she did not want her family to know about the birth, the court reversed a conviction of involuntary manslaughter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Burden
  California Court of Appeal· 1977-08-10· cited 54×
• State v. Shephard
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1963-11-12· cited 46×
• People v. Rodriguez
  California Court of Appeal· 1960-11-16· cited 32×
• Biddle v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-04-26· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Pugh
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-06-15· cited 24×
• Vaughan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-02-07· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Pugh
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2009-01-26

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1938-06-18· cited 24×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1909-08-12· cited 17×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1936-02-20· cited 9×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1914-04-15· cited 6×
• Burke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1936-01-16· cited 1×