St. Clair v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “issues decided in earlier appeals should not be revisited in subsequent ones[]”
• holding “St. Clair cannot claim he was prejudiced by the giving of an instruction that he requested.”
• “[T]he marital- communications privilege under KRE 504 must be invoked before it can be applicable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Johnson
  California Supreme Court· 2016-01-21· cited 222×
• Commonwealth v. McGorman
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-03-17· cited 86×
• Glendale More Jr. v. State of Iowa
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2016-05-20· cited 51×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-08-16· cited 41×
• St. Clair v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-02-19· cited 23×
• Sluss v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-12-18· cited 20×
• Doyle v. Doyle
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-06-14· cited 16×
• Garland v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-02-19· cited 11×
• White v. Com. of Ky.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2017-08-24· cited 10×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-01-29· cited 8×
• Steven O. Dale, Acting Commissioner, W. Va. DMV v. Christina Painter
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-10-30· cited 7×
• SER Airsquid Ventures, Inc. v. Hon. David W. Hummel, Jr.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-09-24· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Doss
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-12-15· cited 7×
• McLaren v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2017-12-28· cited 7×
• State v. Glenn.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2020-06-30· cited 6×
• Glendale More Jr., Applicant-Appellant v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-09-23
• Amended August 17, 2016 Glendale More Jr. v. State of Iowa
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2016-05-20
• Rocha v. King County
  Washington Supreme Court· 2020-04-09
• Shale Energy Alliance, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Mac Warner, West Virginia Secretary of State
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2021-06-14
• Raiantez Shackles v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2025-09-18

Cites

138 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael
  Supreme Court· 1999-03-23· cited 8,651×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Brecht v. Abrahamson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 7,022×
• Arizona v. Fulminante
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 6,060×
• Neder v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-10· cited 5,157×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-05-12· cited 4,572×
• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Herrera v. Collins
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 3,060×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Taylor v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-28· cited 1,952×
• Arizona v. California
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-30· cited 1,909×
• United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-26· cited 1,863×