Thompson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• abuse of discretion not to excuse for cause juror who repeatedly emphasized his strong belief in the death penalty and the \eye for an eye\ philosophy
• discretion whether to allow individual voir dire

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tamme v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-09-03· cited 202×
• Stopher v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-08-15· cited 169×
• Soto v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-04-22· cited 139×
• St. Clair v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-02-23· cited 102×
• Hodge v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-06-15· cited 96×
• Talbott v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-03-19· cited 94×
• Woodall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-01-15· cited 82×
• Perdue v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1996-03-21· cited 81×
• Wheeler v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-12-18· cited 77×
• Baze v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 74×
• Matheney v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-04-04· cited 67×
• Foley v. Com.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 67×
• Thompson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-08-26· cited 55×
• Hayes v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 54×
• Jarvis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-01-22· cited 53×
• Boyd v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-08-21· cited 43×
• Morgan v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-05-18· cited 33×
• Manning v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-04-20· cited 27×
• Palmer v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1999-10-01· cited 23×
• Garland v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-03-18· cited 19×

Cites

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

• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• California v. Ramos
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 1,071×
• Spaziano v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 1,061×
• McDougall v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 975×
• Gall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1980-10-14· cited 173×
• Florey v. Sioux Falls School District 49-5
  Supreme Court· 1980-11-10· cited 171×
• McClellan v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1986-06-12· cited 160×
• Johnson ex rel. Rossiello v. Allstate Insurance
  Supreme Court· 1980-11-10· cited 150×
• Payne v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1981-10-13· cited 131×
• Abernathy v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1969-02-28· cited 125×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-05-23· cited 117×
• Pendleton v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-02-28· cited 113×
• State v. Jordan
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-06-19· cited 108×
• Marsch v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1988-01-21· cited 81×
• Grooms v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1988-09-08· cited 78×
• Peterson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-04-29· cited 76×
• Kordenbrock v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-09-05· cited 72×
• Pennington v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1958-09-19· cited 67×
• Dean v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1989-09-28· cited 50×
• Rigsby v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1973-06-29· cited 40×