Brewer v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• \An appellate court's standard of review for admission of evidence is whether the trial court abused its discretion.\
• no prosecutorial misconduct where prosecutor urged the jury to \send a message\
• no prosecutorial misconduct where prosecutor urged the jury to \send a message\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Harp v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-10-27· cited 154×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2007-05-24· cited 145×
• Parker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-05-21· cited 63×
• Allen v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 37×
• Hatfield v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-01-24· cited 34×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-10-29· cited 33×
• Hilton v. Commonwealth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-02-15· cited 27×
• Slone v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-10-25· cited 21×
• Stacy v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-03-21· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Terrell
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-04-02· cited 17×
• Minter v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-12-19· cited 14×
• Welch v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2007-11-01· cited 10×
• Barnett v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-05-20· cited 10×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2007-09-20· cited 9×
• Mitchell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2010-03-05· cited 5×
• Steward v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-12-20· cited 4×
• Boyd v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2011-09-23· cited 3×
• John D. Ellis v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2024-06-13
• R. L. P. v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2025-02-07

Cites

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

• Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
  Supreme Court· 1943-01-04· cited 2,192×
• Commonwealth v. English
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-06-17· cited 1,274×
• 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×
• Abernathy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1969-02-28· cited 125×
• Matthews v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-05-19· cited 106×
• United States v. Roger Allen Clark (93-5596) Jeffrey Mullins (93-5597)
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-03-14· cited 84×
• Hill v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-01-22· cited 69×
• Marshall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-11-21· cited 54×
• Major v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-02-03· cited 46×
• Baker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-05-21· cited 45×
• Blake v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-03-09· cited 39×
• White v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-07-05· cited 36×
• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 33×
• Gerlaugh v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-02-17· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-09-01· cited 25×
• Osborne v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-10-22· cited 25×
• Dishman v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1995-09-21· cited 23×
• Kirkland v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 23×