Bennett v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that victim background information is generally admissible
• “With the adoption of the penal code, the felony murder doctrine was abandoned as an independent basis for establishing an offense of homicide in Kentucky.”
• “With the adoption of the penal code, the felony murder doctrine was abandoned as an independent basis for establishing an offense of homicide in Kentucky.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ernst v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-04-21· cited 114×
• Graves v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-01-20· cited 100×
• Caudill v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-06-12· cited 98×
• Hodge v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-06-15· cited 96×
• Roe v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-09-24· cited 67×
• Marshall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-11-21· cited 54×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-07-07· cited 44×
• Lofthouse v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-02-24· cited 33×
• Harper v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 24×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-12-15· cited 19×
• Beaumont v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-10-01· cited 18×
• Meredith v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-05-19· cited 8×
• State v. Shafer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-06-03· cited 6×
• State of West Virginia v. Timothy Paul Shafer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-06-03

Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• United States v. Dixon
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 2,221×
• Mu'Min v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 804×
• Harris v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 618×
• Commonwealth v. Burge
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-06-19· cited 200×
• Ice v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-02-16· cited 168×
• Williford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-09· cited 152×
• Montgomery v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-10-24· cited 135×
• Bowling v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-04-24· cited 131×
• Paul Kordenbrock v. Gene Scroggy, Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-01-30· cited 120×
• State v. Payne
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1990-04-16· cited 120×
• McQueen v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-02-16· cited 112×
• Baze v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 74×
• Kordenbrock v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-09-05· cited 72×
• Foley v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-04-24· cited 71×
• Foley v. Com.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 67×
• Jacobs v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-01-31· cited 61×
• Brewster v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-06-13· cited 54×
• Tarrence v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1953-12-18· cited 45×