Wood Ex Rel. Wood v. Henry County Public Schools

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 -8- pocketknife is neither a dirk, bowie knife, switchblade knife, ballistic knife, nor a weapon of like kind”
• holding that “a pocketknife is neither a dirk, bowie knife, switchblade knife, ballistic knife, nor a weapon of like kind”
• concluding that a pocketknife is not a weapon of like kind without considering the student’s subjective perception of the knife or his purpose for having it
• deciding that a pocketknife was not a weapon when appellant carried it on a school-sponsored field trip to a jail and handed the knife to the deputy
• holding that a folding pocketknife is not within the statute’s prohibition
• holding that the statute does not encompass pocketknives

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).