Combs v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that trial court should not have “treated [the witness’s] invocation of the privilege against self-incrimination as an ‘all-or-nothing’ decision that barred the witness from testifying at all”
• witness does not, by testifying to certain matters, waive his/her Fifth Amendment privilege with respect to other, unrelated matters
• witness does not, by testifying to certain matters, waive his/her Fifth Amendment privilege with respect to other, unrelated matters
• “[although there are different constitutional concerns at stake” when confrontation as opposed to compulsory process rights are implicated, “prohibiting a witness from testifying or striking the entirety of a witness’s testimony is a ‘drastic remedy not lightly invoked’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Adkins v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-01-23· cited 146×
• Rodriguez v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-10-17· cited 58×
• Varble v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-01-22· cited 32×
• Sule v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-11-21· cited 9×
• Moody v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-08-25· cited 6×
• Alexander v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2007-03-30· cited 3×
• S.S. v. Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2025-04-11

Cites

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

• Alford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-02-24· cited 1,352×
• United States v. John Cardillo, Lawrence Harris, Ralph Kaminsky, John Knapp, Louis Margolis, and Louis Piselli
  Second Circuit· 1963-04-24· cited 261×
• United States v. Anthony Esparsen, United States of America v. Kelly Esparsen, United States of America v. Robert McFadden
  Tenth Circuit· 1991-04-18· cited 161×
• United States v. Jorge Negrete-Gonzales, United States of America v. Rogelio Mendoza-Barajas
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-06-02· cited 158×
• United States v. Orlando Zapata
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-02-24· cited 141×
• United States v. David Lord
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-07-26· cited 137×
• United States v. Dracy Lamont McKneely Also Known as Green Eyes
  Tenth Circuit· 1995-12-05· cited 131×
• Marion Francis Fountain and Roosevelt Tremble v. United States of America, Eugene J. Marshall v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1968-01-08· cited 128×
• Abernathy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1969-02-28· cited 125×
• American Bankers Insurance ex rel. Roberts v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-01-13· cited 104×
• United States v. Gary
  First Circuit· 1996-01-05· cited 98×
• Theo Ervin Williams v. Robert Borg, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-03-23· cited 78×
• United States v. Bartelho
  First Circuit· 1997-11-25· cited 76×
• Clarence Eugene Lawson v. Edward W. Murray, Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1988-01-25· cited 71×
• United States v. Walter Seifert and Jack Ehrlich
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-12-19· cited 68×
• Robert Denham, Jr. v. George Deeds, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-01-27· cited 68×
• United States v. Albert Juan Nunez
  Tenth Circuit· 1982-02-23· cited 62×
• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-05-11· cited 48×
• United States v. Charles Crawford
  Tenth Circuit· 1983-06-02· cited 43×
• United States v. Drayton Curry, A/K/A Mr. C.
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-05-07· cited 35×