Fields 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 that when read in its entirety, the primary instruction accurately stated the law and the effect of voluntary intoxication on the offense of intentional murder
• giving \particular attention\ to other cases involving single murders in performing proportionality review of death sentence in case involving murder in the course of burglary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-06-17· cited 259×
• Winstead v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-05-21· cited 210×
• Ordway v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-02-21· cited 131×
• Meece v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 87×
• Hunt v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-03-18· cited 79×
• St. Clair v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-08-21· cited 61×
• Dunlap v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-06-20· cited 47×
• University Medical Center, Inc. v. Beglin
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-10-27· cited 35×
• Samuel Fields v. Scott Jordan
  Sixth Circuit· 2023-11-03· cited 34×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-05-20· cited 25×
• Childers v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-03-24· cited 25×
• Cecil v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-10-29· cited 21×
• Cherry v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-02-19· cited 19×
• Huddleston v. Commonwealth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-02-15· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Douglas
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-08-16· cited 14×
• White v. Com. of Ky.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2017-08-24· cited 10×
• St. Clair v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-09-23· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Doss
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-12-15· cited 7×
• Jones v. Costanzo
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-10-25· cited 3×
• Quinton R. Huddleston v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2018-02-15

Cites

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

• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Malloy v. Hogan
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 3,675×
• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• Snyder v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 2,822×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• United States v. Scheffer
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-31· cited 1,617×
• Morgan v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-15· cited 1,584×
• Patton v. Yount
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-26· cited 1,463×
• Mills v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,392×
• Baze v. Rees
  Supreme Court· 2008-04-16· cited 1,040×
• Harold McQueen Jr. v. Gene Scroggy, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-12-30· cited 316×
• Sanborn v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1988-06-09· cited 228×
• Tamme v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-09-03· cited 202×
• Springer v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-05-03· cited 185×
• Mills v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-04-22· cited 174×
• Stopher v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-08-15· cited 169×
• Ice v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-02-16· cited 168×
• McClellan v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1986-06-12· cited 160×
• Skaggs v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-05-23· cited 136×
• Sanders v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1990-09-27· cited 135×