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.

• evidence of defendant’s prior indictment for flagrant nonsupport admissible as proof of motive to murder his wife
• evidence of defendant's prior indictment for flagrant nonsupport admissible as proof of motive to murder his wife
• “Even where evidence of a prior crime has some relevance, the trial judge must use some discretion in deciding to what extent the prior bad act may be utilized without prejudice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Stopher v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-08-15· cited 169×
• Soto v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-04-22· cited 139×
• Young v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 110×
• Colwell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-12-21· cited 34×
• Fairrow v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 19×
• Meredith v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-05-19· cited 8×
• Christopher Chad Parker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2020-01-08
• Nickolas Oscar Geno v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2025-07-18

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rose v. Clark
  Supreme Court· 1986-07-02· cited 2,431×
• Parker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-09-04· cited 94×
• O'Bryan v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1982-03-09· cited 83×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1988-11-17· cited 77×
• Tucker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1996-02-22· cited 28×
• Bates v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-06-30· cited 15×
• Pickard Chrysler, Inc. v. Sizemore
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1995-09-08· cited 7×
• Ratliff v. Line
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1970-02-27· cited 1×