Rodriguez v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “[P]roof of flight to elude capture or to prevent discovery is admissible because ‘flight is always some evidence of a sense of guilt.’”
• “Evidence of flight is admissible because it has a tendency to make the existence of the defendant’s guilt more probable: a guilty person probably would act like a guilty person.”
• “In other words, there was evidence to infer that Rodriguez stole the truck as a means to escape arrest for the robbery, rather than as an end in itself. Thus, the evidence was relevant and admissible subject to the balancing test of KRE 403.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ordway v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-02-21· cited 131×
• State of Iowa v. John Arthur Wilson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2016-02-19· cited 75×
• Webb v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-11-21· cited 73×
• Bray v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-09-22· cited 57×
• Major v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-02-03· cited 46×
• Doneghy v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-06-20· cited 40×
• McDaniel v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-12-19· cited 40×
• Cantrell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 25×
• Blount v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-02-21· cited 20×
• Fairrow v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 19×
• Cherry v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-02-19· cited 19×
• Day v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-02-23· cited 8×
• Matthews v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2011-10-14· cited 5×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2006-02-17· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Bowles
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2007-11-01· cited 2×
• Rodgers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2010-04-09· cited 2×
• Amended June 30, 2016 State of Iowa v. John Arthur Wilson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2016-02-19
• John D. Ellis v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2024-06-13

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Bowling v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-04-24· cited 131×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-05-23· cited 117×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1993-05-27· cited 89×
• Chumbler v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1995-08-24· cited 86×
• Gould v. Charlton Co., Inc.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1996-09-26· cited 76×
• Garrett v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-06-19· cited 75×
• Furnish v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-12-10· cited 72×
• United States v. Burbridge
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-05-28· cited 43×
• Scruggs v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-04-11· cited 42×
• Levasseur v. Pepe
  First Circuit· 1995-11-22· cited 38×
• Colwell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-12-21· cited 34×
• United States v. Bredy
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-04-18· cited 28×
• Hord v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1928-10-09· cited 27×
• Merriweather v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-03-20· cited 23×
• Gamble v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-02-21· cited 23×
• Hamblin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1973-09-28· cited 9×