Commonwealth v. Stone

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that where a redacted statement did not create a false impression, the defendant had no right to require the balance of his statement be admitted; if dissatisfied, he “was free to testify at trial and fully present the facts as he understood them to be”
• explaining that where a redacted statement did not create a false impression, the defendant had no right to require the balance of his statement be admitted; if dissatisfied, he “was free to testify at trial and fully present the facts as he understood them to be”
• “‘Opening the door’ to otherwise inadmissible evidence is a form of waiver that happens when one party’s use of inadmissible evidence justifies the opposing party's rebuttal of that evidence with equally inadmissible proof”
• rejecting assault defendant's claim that he should have been permitted to supplement the introduced portion of his statement, in which he admitted stabbing the victim in self-defense, with \his entire version of the events in its proper context\
• “Generally stated, ‘opening the door’ to otherwise inadmissible evidence is a form of waiver that happens when one party’s use of inadmissible evidence justifies the opposing party’s rebuttal of that evidence with equally inadmissible proof.”
• Crawford implicated when redacted confession of co-defendant explicitly used against defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-06-17· cited 259×
• Peacher v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-02-21· cited 54×
• Mason v. Commonwealth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-11-01· cited 49×
• Goben v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-12-15· cited 22×
• State v. Degahson
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2022-08-26· cited 21×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-02-23· cited 13×
• Graham v. Commonwealth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2019-04-18· cited 8×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2019-03-14· cited 6×
• Sheets v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-08-25· cited 3×
• Yoder Austin Blalock v. State of Alaska, State of Alaska v. Yoder Austin Blalock
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2019-09-27· cited 1×
• Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, Cabinet for Health and Family Services
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2026-03-20

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Richardson v. Marsh
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 2,670×
• Crane v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-09· cited 2,651×
• Gray v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-09· cited 723×
• Rodgers v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Hager
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-01-25· cited 56×
• Purcell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-11-18· cited 50×
• Terry v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-01-20· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1996-08-29· cited 36×
• Schrimsher v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-04-20· cited 33×
• Hilbert v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-05-19· cited 26×
• Gibson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1931-01-20· cited 14×