Ward v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that “the evidence must ‘directly’ pertain to the offense charged”
• handgun charge should be severed from other charges to avoid prejudice from jury’s learning of otherwise inadmissible criminal history in guilt phase

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

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

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• United States v. Cortez
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-21· cited 5,975×
• Old Chief v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-01-07· cited 2,913×
• Winstead v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-05-21· cited 210×
• Ratliff v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-07-28· cited 108×
• United States v. Justin Cephus
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-07-06· cited 65×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-11-23· cited 46×
• United States v. Antonio Rivera
  Second Circuit· 2015-08-25· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Stone
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-08-27· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1996-08-29· cited 36×
• Montgomery v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-03-18· cited 33×
• United States v. Gemma
  First Circuit· 2016-03-30· cited 33×
• Anderson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 27×
• Strange v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-11-26· cited 25×
• Violett v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1995-10-19· cited 23×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-12-15· cited 19×
• Anderson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-01-22· cited 17×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-06-11· cited 16×
• Wallace v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-08-20· cited 16×