Smith v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he offense of murder may be committed with either of two culpable mental states, intentional or wanton.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Slaughter v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-11-05· cited 159×
• Foster v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-05-14· cited 106×
• Talbott v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-03-19· cited 94×
• Stanford v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1990-05-24· cited 79×
• Driver v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-03-22· cited 59×
• Thomas v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-06-16· cited 56×
• Fields v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-02-24· cited 55×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-12-16· cited 55×
• Luna v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-02-19· cited 47×
• Hudson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-11-19· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Wolford
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-08-26· cited 43×
• Hunter v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-01-31· cited 31×
• Lawton v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-10-27· cited 30×
• Barbour v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-02-13· cited 29×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-06-15· cited 28×
• Fields v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-10-23· cited 26×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-08-23· cited 26×
• Eubanks v. Stengel
  W.D. Kentucky· 1998-11-05· cited 25×
• Richard Wayne Terry v. John W. Potter, Judge
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-05-23· cited 24×
• Morgan v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-06-23· cited 23×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 3,075×
• Price v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-15· cited 784×
• Hopper v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 715×
• McClellan v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1986-06-12· cited 160×
• Wellman v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-06-13· cited 101×
• Hayes v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1981-11-24· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Rose
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-01-22· cited 52×
• Hon v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-04-19· cited 39×
• People v. Kelly
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-01-24· cited 36×
• Baker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-10-04· cited 36×
• Killen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-02-20· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Schaller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-03-13· cited 29×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-09-05· cited 25×
• Gunter v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-11-21· cited 22×
• State v. Ellis
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1950-06-26· cited 21×
• Blake v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1980-11-03· cited 19×
• Perkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1956-11-19· cited 9×
• Grace v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-02-06· cited 9×
• Guy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1981-01-20· cited 3×