Chumbler 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 issue of whether instruction was improper was not adequately preserved where, although defendant tendered alternative instructions, she did not make specific objection raising grounds on which she believed given instruction was improper
• finding defendants were denied a fair trial where “the Commonwealth presented evidence of [other acts] far in excess of what was relevant to . . . establish motive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Burns
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-11-08· cited 3,074×
• Springer v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-05-03· cited 185×
• Stopher v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-08-15· cited 169×
• Chestnut v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-04-24· cited 111×
• Young v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 110×
• Houston v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-09-03· cited 105×
• Lanham v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-08-25· cited 101×
• Caudill v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-06-12· cited 98×
• Meece v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 87×
• Barnett v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 85×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-11-18· cited 72×
• Furnish v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-12-10· cited 72×
• Foley v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-04-24· cited 71×
• Foley v. Com.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 67×
• Driver v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-03-22· cited 59×
• Bray v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-09-22· cited 57×
• Thompson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-08-26· cited 55×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-06-18· cited 49×
• Dunlap v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-06-20· cited 47×
• Rodriguez v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-06-12· cited 45×

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Manson v. Brathwaite
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 5,119×
• United States v. Young
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-20· cited 4,689×
• Michigan v. Tucker
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-10· cited 1,437×
• Sanborn v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1988-06-09· cited 228×
• Gall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1980-10-14· cited 173×
• Slaughter v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-11-05· cited 159×
• Funk v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-09-24· cited 99×
• West v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1989-10-06· cited 85×
• Drumm v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1990-01-18· cited 81×
• Luttrell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-06-10· cited 76×
• Clark v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-08-26· cited 73×
• Romans v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-02-18· cited 65×
• McDonald v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-07-01· cited 64×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1990-09-06· cited 57×
• Byrd v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-02-13· cited 51×
• Nugent v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1982-08-31· cited 50×
• Summitt v. Bordenkircher
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-10-19· cited 48×