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.

• observing that “the Governor had authority to commute the death sentence to any lesser penalty [and that] [t]he -6- decisions of the Federal courts adopted the same reasoning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Phon
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-04-20· cited 68×
• Stanford v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2007-12-07· cited 3×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank
  Supreme Court· 1940-01-02· cited 1,225×
• Hamilton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1970-09-25· cited 7×
• Hamilton v. Ford
  E.D. Kentucky· 1973-08-03· cited 4×