Bell v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• reaching only the issue of risk of injury since no actual injury occurred and citing Lawson's footnote 9 regarding the wording of KRS 520.095
• rejecting existence of substantial risk of danger based on hypothetical that police officer may have drawn his weapon during pursuit when there was no evidence the officer had in fact drawn his weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McCleery v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-09-26· cited 52×
• United States v. Hill
  Eighth Circuit· 2009-10-22· cited 20×
• Crain v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-04-24· cited 8×
• United States v. Derrick Ball
  Sixth Circuit· 2014-11-17· cited 5×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2008-02-15
• United States v. Phillip Hill
  Eighth Circuit· 2009-10-22
• Troy Dunkleberger v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2025-03-20

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tennessee v. Garner
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-27· cited 4,272×
• Commonwealth v. Benham
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-09-26· cited 794×
• Commonwealth v. Sawhill
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-11-23· cited 310×
• Trowel v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-04-01· cited 127×
• Graves v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-01-20· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-13· cited 50×
• Lofthouse v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-02-24· cited 33×
• Hennemeyer v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1979-03-20· cited 33×
• Hardin v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-10-31· cited 30×
• Gilbert v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1982-09-21· cited 30×
• Lawson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-09-26· cited 25×
• Cooper v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 18×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-06-13· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Clemons
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-06-11· cited 14×
• Robertson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-08-22· cited 12×
• Wyatt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1987-08-28· cited 7×
• Hancock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1998-12-18· cited 6×
• Lewin v. United States
  First Circuit· 1933-01-03· cited 5×
• Hash v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1994-05-27· cited 3×