Thacker v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “to do an act from general malevolence is not an attempt to commit a crime, because there is no specific intent, though the act according to its consequences may amount to a substantive crime”
• “The law does not presume, because an assault was made with a weapon likely to produce death, that it was an assault with the intent to murder.”
• “The law does not presume, because an assault was made with a weapon likely to produce death, that it was an assault with the intent to murder.”
• “The law does not presume, because an assault was made with a weapon likely to produce death, that it was an assault with the intent to murder.”
• “The law does not presume, because an assault was made with a weapon likely to produce death, that it was an assault with the intent to murder.”
• “The law does not presume, because an assault was made with a weapon likely to produce death, that it was an assault with the intent to murder.”

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Cited by

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

• State v. Starkey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-05-02· cited 220×
• People v. Trinkle
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-10-05· cited 126×
• Merritt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-06-13· cited 104×
• Banovitch v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-09-08· cited 92×
• Hargrave v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-01-14· cited 77×
• State v. Johnson
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1985-10-01· cited 72×
• Kearney & Trecker Corporation v. Giddings & Lewis, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1972-04-17· cited 71×
• State v. Turner
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2005-05-11· cited 62×
• Fuller v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1977-09-01· cited 57×
• Ingram v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1951-10-08· cited 55×
• Harrell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-09-04· cited 55×
• McKeon v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-06-15· cited 53×
• Goodson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-03-12· cited 44×
• Howard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 42×
• Dixon v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1955-10-10· cited 35×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1954-05-03· cited 34×
• State v. Franklin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1953-12-01· cited 32×
• Dixon v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1934-03-22· cited 27×
• Crawley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-11-04· cited 24×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-09-09· cited 24×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hicks v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1889-06-20· cited 67×
• Kinnebrew v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1887-10-26· cited 43×
• Lacefield v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1879-11-15· cited 41×
• State v. Meadows
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1881-11-19· cited 26×
• Vandermark v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1868-01-15· cited 11×

Other cases named Thacker v. Commonwealth

16 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1972-02-18· cited 36×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-06-15· cited 28×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1970-05-08· cited 22×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1929-02-15· cited 7×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1927-05-10· cited 5×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1966-03-25· cited 5×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2003-09-12· cited 4×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1955-11-18· cited 4×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1957-10-25· cited 4×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1991-10-04· cited 4×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1923-01-26· cited 4×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-04-24· cited 3×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-09-17· cited 2×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-06-21· cited 1×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1945-11-19
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1936-03-06