Wells v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• statements made by stabbing victim to 911 operator and treating EMT made within minutes of stabbing properly admitted as excited utterances
• statements made by stabbing victim to 911 operator and treating EMT made within minutes of stabbing properly admitted as excited utterances
• the trial court is in the \best position\ to determine the true intent behind the Commonwealth's peremptory challenges
• statement made after declarant was told that his situation was extremely critical and he could die at any moment
• statements made shortly after the declar-ant was stabbed and while the fatal knife was still imbedded in his back
• the trial court is in the “best position” to determine the true intent behind the Commonwealth’s peremptory challenges

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Soto v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-04-22· cited 139×
• Chestnut v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-04-24· cited 111×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-10-31· cited 69×
• State v. Guthrie
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-06-25· cited 66×
• Gabow v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-11-08· cited 66×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-12-16· cited 24×
• Stewart v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-01-20· cited 23×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 23×
• Greene v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2008-01-04· cited 23×
• Watkins v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-05-22· cited 23×
• Goben v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-12-15· cited 22×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-03-18· cited 17×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-06-11· cited 16×
• Tunstull v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-04-21· cited 11×
• Darcy v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-09-18· cited 11×
• Bratcher v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2012-11-02· cited 7×
• Little v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1999-01-29· cited 4×
• Brank v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2018-07-27· cited 4×
• R.C. v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2002-07-13· cited 3×
• RC v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2002-07-13

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Rhode Island v. Innis
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,571×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• United States v. Adam Victor Guerra-Marez, Esperanza Adame, Maria Paredes-Moya, and Wenseslada Reyes-Moya
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-05-29· cited 83×
• Souder v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1986-10-16· cited 65×
• Bedell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-01-31· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Snodgrass
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-06-04· cited 56×
• United States v. Harold E. Staples
  Tenth Circuit· 1994-07-21· cited 1×