Commonwealth v. Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that urging the jury to make an example out of defendant to help fight the spread of Oxycontin related crimes was not palpable error
• holding that since testimony regarding defendant’s prior run in with informants was vague and did not address any particular bad act, such statements did not fall under KRE 404(b)
• “This Court has repeatedly held that a prosecutor is permitted wide latitude during closing arguments and is entitled to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence, as well as respond to matters raised by the defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brewer v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-11-22· cited 262×
• Spicer v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-01-05· cited 184×
• Parker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-05-21· cited 63×
• Driver v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-03-22· cited 59×
• Benjamin v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-10-23· cited 51×
• Peyton v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-05-22· cited 36×
• Newcomb v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-04-25· cited 36×
• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-03-22· cited 33×
• Hannah v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-03-18· cited 32×
• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-04-21· cited 23×
• Graham v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-09-10· cited 18×
• Carver v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-01-21· cited 17×
• McDaniel v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 15×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-12-18· cited 15×
• Lewis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-09-24· cited 13×
• Bixler v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-08-24· cited 10×
• Caudill v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-08-23· cited 10×
• White v. Com. of Ky.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2017-08-24· cited 10×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-02-21· cited 8×
• McMahan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2007-11-30· cited 2×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sanborn v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1988-06-09· cited 228×
• Ice v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-02-16· cited 168×
• Funk v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-09-24· cited 99×
• Payton v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-08-26· cited 57×
• State v. Apilando
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1995-08-31· cited 56×
• Coreas v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1989-10-24· cited 56×
• Gordon v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1995-11-22· cited 52×
• Lynem v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-04-11· cited 46×
• Wallen v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-09-21· cited 41×
• Young v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-09-21· cited 40×
• Hunt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1971-05-07· cited 25×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1934-04-17· cited 21×
• People v. Chavez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-06-16· cited 16×
• Stasel v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1955-04-29· cited 13×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-06· cited 9×
• Castle v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2000-10-27· cited 4×