Crawford v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “ ‘Any private person ... that is present when any felony is committed is bound by the law to arrest the felon on pain of fine and imprisonment if he escapes through the negligence of the standers-by.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Clarke
  Washington Supreme Court· 1962-12-27· cited 13×
• State v. Updegraff
  Montana Supreme Court· 2011-12-20· cited 10×
• Quarles v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1951-10-12· cited 10×
• Kinder v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1936-03-10· cited 6×
• Hendrickson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1972-10-06· cited 4×
• Grant v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-01-09· cited 1×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stevens v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1906-12-07· cited 34×
• Dilger v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1889-05-09· cited 33×
• Fitzpatrick v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1925-10-02· cited 12×
• Sexson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1931-05-22· cited 8×
• Mylett's Administrator v. Burnley
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1915-03-02· cited 6×
• Miles v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1911-05-09· cited 5×
• Litteral v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1928-03-02· cited 3×
• Bentley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1930-04-22· cited 2×
• Logsdon v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1930-10-03· cited 1×