Jackson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “The testimony of the physicians together with that of the accused, establishes beyond cavil, doubt, or question” that the child was born alive.
• “I do not believe it is necessary or proper to extend the opinion of this court to the other issues discussed in the [plurality] opinion, and for that reason I concur in the result only.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Booth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-20· cited 113×
• Bennett v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1963-01-11· cited 39×
• People v. Chavez
  California Court of Appeal· 1947-01-10· cited 37×
• State v. Lamy
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2009-04-08· cited 35×
• Hollis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 34×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-11-22· cited 32×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-04-30· cited 30×
• State v. Doyle
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1980-01-03· cited 26×
• State v. D. OSMUS
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1954-11-16· cited 25×
• State v. Kinsky
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-04-27· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Edelin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-12-17· cited 19×
• State v. Collington
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1972-11-01· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-06-17· cited 10×
• Duncan v. Flynn
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-02-09· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Chester County Court of Common Pleas· 1978-03-14· cited 1×
• People v. Wang
  New York Supreme Court· 1985-05-07