Hamilton v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• statute penalizing as murder “wanton” conduct causing death, supports murder conviction for unintentional homicide

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Essex v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 189×
• Walden v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-01-17· cited 73×
• Love v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-02-22· cited 69×
• Cook v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-03-18· cited 52×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-07-07· cited 44×
• Estep v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-09-04· cited 44×
• State v. Boone
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1983-03-29· cited 35×
• Pears v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-11-25· cited 32×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-10-27· cited 32×
• Sluss v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-09-20· cited 30×
• Berryman v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2007-11-01· cited 16×
• Bowling v. Commonwealth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-08-16· cited 16×
• State v. Woodall
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1987-07-16· cited 14×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-01-20· cited 14×
• State v. Downing
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2016-01-27· cited 10×
• State v. Barstad
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-01-12· cited 8×
• Harry Ritchie's Jewelers, Inc. v. Chlebowski (In Re Chlebowski)
  D. Oregon· 2000-03-23· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Runion
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1993-12-17· cited 7×
• Hurt v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-09-26· cited 7×
• Ison v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2008-09-26· cited 2×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1926-03-02· cited 48×
• Marye v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1951-06-22· cited 29×
• Newcomb v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1939-01-17· cited 15×
• Hill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1931-06-16· cited 13×