Willis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[t]he defense of parental privilege, like self-defense, is a complete defense” and that, “[i]n response to a charge of battery, Willis raised the defense of parental discipline privilege”
• adopting Restatement of the Law (Second) Torts, § 147(1) (Am. Law Inst. 1965)
• parental privilege was a defense when mother swatted child five to seven times with a belt or electric cord, leaving bruises
• “A parent is privileged to apply such reasonable force . . . upon his [or her] child as he [or she] reasonably believes to be necessary for its proper control, training, or education” [citation omitted]
• parent’s use of a belt or extension cord to strike her son five to seven times on the buttocks held to be reasonable corporal punishment when it was reasonably necessary and appropriate to compel obedience to Mother’s insistence that her son tell the truth
• parent’s use of a belt or extension cord to strike her son five to seven times on the buttocks held to be reasonable corporal punishment when it was reasonably necessary and appropriate to compel obedience to Mother’s insistence that her son tell the truth

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Newman v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2013-04-18· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Dorvil
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-06-25· cited 22×
• Ceaser v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-03-26· cited 20×
• Tasima M. Collyear-Bell v. Dennis T. Bell (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-05-11· cited 12×
• McReynolds v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-03-04· cited 9×
• State v. Wade
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2010-12-30· cited 8×
• Littleton v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-10-06· cited 6×
• Latoyia Smith v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-05-13· cited 6×
• Sauntio Carter v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-11-30· cited 4×
• Matthew v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-08-29· cited 3×
• William A. Hart v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-02-02· cited 1×
• Termination of Parent-Child Relationship of N.G. v. Indiana Department of Child Services
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-09-29· cited 1×
• Lavern Ceaser v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-03-26
• Anthony M. Cleveland v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-06-16
• Etelvina Abrego v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-06-17
• Unnamed case
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-09-29
• In the Matter of: K.D., a Child in Need of Services, S.D. (Mother) and Ke.D. (Father) v. Ind. Dept. of Child Services (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-05-24
• Alvin C. Putman v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-08-17
• Wilma Beatrice Allen v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-11-23
• Tommie R. Shelton v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-01-31

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wisconsin v. Yoder
  Supreme Court· 1972-05-15· cited 3,250×
• Quilloin v. Walcott
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-06· cited 1,234×
• Townsend v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-04-18· cited 106×
• Wallace v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-03-23· cited 92×
• Sanders v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-01-07· cited 77×
• Tunstill v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-03-21· cited 69×
• Prince v. Department of Child Services
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-02-27· cited 48×
• State v. Wilder
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2000-02-24· cited 34×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-11-15· cited 21×
• TG v. Department of Children and Families
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-04-18· cited 20×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1986-02-24· cited 18×
• Mitchell v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-08-16· cited 18×
• Cooper v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-08-09· cited 17×
• Hinkle v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1891-02-05· cited 17×
• Dyson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-03-27· cited 12×
• Townsend v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-06-29· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-03-04· cited 8×
• Parker v. Monroe County Department of Public Welfare
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1989-01-30· cited 6×
• Willis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-05-17· cited 2×