Gall v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “[U]nlike the case where emotional disturbance has been precipitated by some event or circumstance that the defendant believed to exist, there was no evidence that Gall was motivated by any ‘belief on his part with regard to the circumstances that induced the alleged emotional disturbance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-05-23· cited 437×
• Eugene Williams Gall, Jr. v. Phil Parker, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-10-30· cited 250×
• Sireci v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-30· cited 144×
• Fraser v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 129×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-06-04· cited 100×
• Haight v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. McGorman
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-03-17· cited 86×
• Bowling v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 69×
• McQueen v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1986-09-25· cited 64×
• Rodriguez v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-10-17· cited 58×
• Prescott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2019-04-05· cited 53×
• Sanborn v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Bussell
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2007-06-21· cited 49×
• State v. Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-01-09· cited 45×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-07-07· cited 44×
• Hodge v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-09-05· cited 44×
• Skaggs v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1990-11-08· cited 43×
• Humphrey v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-02-19· cited 41×
• Parrish v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-09-18· cited 37×
• Mills v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-05-19· cited 33×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Cuyler v. Adams
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 641×
• United States v. Heldt
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-10-02· cited 272×
• Reina v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-12-19· cited 206×
• Victor Dennis Marzullo v. State of Maryland
  Fourth Circuit· 1977-09-02· cited 173×
• Gall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1980-10-14· cited 173×
• Ice v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-02-16· cited 168×
• James G. Davis v. State of Alabama
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-06-13· cited 78×
• Ex Parte Farley
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-07-25· cited 63×
• Jones v. Rayborn
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1961-05-19· cited 50×
• Johnny Franklin Harris v. Vernon Housewright, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1982-12-28· cited 28×
• Balsley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1967-05-26· cited 23×
• Siller Bros. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1982-04-19· cited 23×
• Thomas v. Schumaker
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1962-06-15· cited 22×
• Young v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1979-08-21· cited 20×
• Davis v. Harris
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1962-03-09· cited 20×
• Manz v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1953-05-01· cited 16×
• Dodd v. Williams
  N.D. Georgia· 1983-03-11· cited 2×
• Fannin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1960-01-29· cited 2×