Brown v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the statute defining wanton murder was facially constitutional
• holding that the statute defining wanton murder was facially constitutional
• stating “whether wanton conduct demonstrates extreme indifference to human life is a question to be 12 decided by the trier of fact[]”
• “To punish wanton conduct as murder, it must be conduct as culpable as intentional murder.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cook v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-03-18· cited 52×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-07-07· cited 44×
• Sluss v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-09-20· cited 30×
• United States v. George Harrison
  Sixth Circuit· 2022-12-01· cited 25×
• Ramsey v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-01-20· cited 19×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-12-15· cited 19×
• Meredith v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-05-19· cited 8×
• Ronald Simpson v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2025-08-14
• United States v. Davon Tooley
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-10-23

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• United States v. National Dairy Products Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-01· cited 902×
• Commonwealth v. Burge
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-06-19· cited 200×
• Payne v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1981-10-13· cited 131×
• People v. Poplis
  New York Court of Appeals· 1972-02-17· cited 97×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1997-03-07· cited 78×
• Walden v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-01-17· cited 73×
• McDonald v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-07-01· cited 64×
• McGinnis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-05-27· cited 44×
• Nichols v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-06-15· cited 32×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-10-27· cited 32×
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-03-11· cited 18×
• Jenkins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1972-03-03· cited 16×
• Sasaki v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1972-10-06· cited 13×
• State v. Dow
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1985-03-01· cited 11×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1978-06-02· cited 10×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1980-06-03· cited 7×