Blair v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘“Opening the door’ . . . occurs when one party introduces an inadmissible fact that opens the door for the opponent to offer similar facts whose only claim to admission is that they negative, explain, or counterbalance the prior inadmissible fact.”
• “To show that evidence is relevant, only a slight increase in probability must be shown.”
• “To show that evidence is relevant, only a slight increase in probability must be shown.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ernst v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-04-21· cited 114×
• Bowling v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-04-22· cited 107×
• Lanham v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-08-25· cited 101×
• Meece v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 87×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-09-20· cited 56×
• Allen v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-03-21· cited 38×
• Terry v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-01-20· cited 36×
• Yates v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-02-20· cited 32×
• St. Clair v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-02-19· cited 23×
• Dillon v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-10-29· cited 23×
• McPherson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-02-23· cited 21×
• McDaniel v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 15×
• Polk v. Greer
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2007-04-27· cited 4×
• Bowen v. Haney
  W.D. Kentucky· 2008-04-08· cited 3×
• Rodgers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2010-04-09· cited 2×
• Ferry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2007-03-30· cited 2×
• Payne, Jason Thad
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-02-27
• Jason Thad Payne v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2013-02-27

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. English
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-06-17· cited 1,274×
• Commonwealth v. Benham
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-09-26· cited 794×
• United States v. Richard Stevens
  Third Circuit· 1991-06-12· cited 257×
• Tamme v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-09-03· cited 202×
• James v. Wilson
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2002-04-19· cited 187×
• Springer v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-05-03· cited 185×
• Slaughter v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-11-05· cited 159×
• Caudill v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-06-12· cited 98×
• Beaty v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 97×
• Hodge v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-06-15· cited 96×
• Billings v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-12-17· cited 83×
• Moss v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-05-22· cited 83×
• Garrett v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-06-19· cited 75×
• Bray v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-02-21· cited 69×
• Foley v. Com.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 67×
• Marshall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-11-21· cited 54×
• Fred Andrew Johnson v. Lou v. Brewer, Warden, Fort Madison Penitentiary
  Eighth Circuit· 1975-09-24· cited 51×
• Colbert v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1957-11-01· cited 46×
• Norris v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-11-21· cited 34×
• Moseley v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 30×