Birdsong v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he question for this Court is whether aggression toward inanimate objects in the presence of others during a theft sufficiently ‘threatens the use of physical force on another person.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Carter v. Smith
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-05-24· cited 27×
• United States v. Tyler Williams
  Sixth Circuit· 2022-07-06· cited 13×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2013-04-19· cited 2×
• John Ray Williams v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2024-12-19
• Eric E Taylor v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2025-09-12

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Commonwealth v. Benham
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-09-26· cited 794×
• United States v. Jessie Lee Waldon
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-02-17· cited 145×
• State v. Hall
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1998-10-07· cited 123×
• United States v. Ricky Lee Woodrup, A/K/A Ricky Lee Woddrup, A/K/A Lee Woodrup, A/K/A Ricky L. Woodrup, A/K/A Rodney Woodrup
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-06-18· cited 106×
• Wilburn v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-03-18· cited 86×
• Merritt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1965-02-05· cited 65×
• Layne v. Newberg
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-11-19· cited 41×
• United States v. George Edward Gipson
  Eighth Circuit· 2004-09-01· cited 36×
• Swain v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-09-29· cited 34×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1986-11-06· cited 26×
• Thompson v. Bracken County
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1956-10-26· cited 11×
• Lawless v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-08-26· cited 11×
• State v. Neal
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2001-02-15· cited 5×
• Correll v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1958-11-07· cited 4×