Jones v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding manslaughter conviction because “the victim was a fetus when the criminal act occurred, but a person when death occurred so the criminal act resulted in the death of person”
• born alive rule superseded by Ky.Rev.Stat. Ann. งง 507A.010[1][c] and 507A.020 through 507A.050 [LexisNexis 2008]
• infant who died from prenatal injuries fourteen hours after birth was ‘person’ within [meaning of] criminal homicide statutes
• conviction of manslaughter in the second degree affirmed where victim was born alive but subsequently died of injuries inflicted in utero
• unborn child injured when intoxicated driver hit car in which pregnant mother and unborn child were passengers; child died shortly after birth
• unborn child injured when intoxicated- driver hit car in which pregnant mother and unborn child were passengers; child died shortly after birth

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Booth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-20· cited 113×
• State v. Courchesne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-06-15· cited 86×
• Board of Trustees v. Attorney General of the Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 50×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-07-07· cited 44×
• Estep v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-01-17· cited 42×
• Cuellar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1997-11-06· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Welch
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1993-09-30· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-06-17· cited 10×
• State of West Virginia v. Stephanie Elaine Louk
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-05-27· cited 9×
• People v. Lage
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2009-05-28· cited 7×
• Knighton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-07-29· cited 4×
• State v. Ashley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-03-22· cited 3×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Mitchell v. Couch
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1955-12-02· cited 105×
• Bonbrest v. Kotz
  District of Columbia· 1946-03-06· cited 94×
• Cox v. Cooper
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1974-05-31· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Cass
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-16· cited 67×
• Raleigh Fitkin-Paul Morgan Memorial Hospital v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1964-06-17· cited 58×
• State v. Horne
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-08-17· cited 57×
• Anderson v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1954-08-04· cited 51×
• Rice v. Rizk
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1970-02-13· cited 45×
• Drews v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 42×
• Steinberg v. Brown
  N.D. Ohio· 1970-12-18· cited 36×
• Hollis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 34×
• Hardin v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-10-31· cited 30×
• People v. Bolar
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-09-21· cited 30×
• O'LEARY v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1969-05-09· cited 26×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1936-09-29· cited 26×
• State v. Hammett
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-06-26· cited 19×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-07-27· cited 16×
• Anderson v. Raleigh Fitkin-Paul Morgan Memorial Hospital
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-19· cited 10×