White v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “This instruction permits the jury to consider every circumstance in mitigation offered by White.”
• three murders, robbery, and burglary
• three murders, robbery, and burglary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tamme v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-09-03· cited 202×
• Slaughter v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-11-05· cited 159×
• Soto v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-04-22· cited 139×
• Skaggs v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-05-23· cited 136×
• Sanders v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1990-09-27· cited 135×
• Hodge v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-06-15· cited 96×
• Simmons v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1988-03-31· cited 91×
• Harper v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1985-05-02· cited 80×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-04-06· cited 79×
• Epperson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-07-03· cited 74×
• St. Clair v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-08-21· cited 61×
• Halvorsen v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-07-02· cited 52×
• Brewer v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-11-22· cited 50×
• Stanford v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-09-03· cited 49×
• Frey v. Francis
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-29· cited 31×
• Kirkland v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-09-27· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Paisley
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-09-21· cited 15×
• Peyton v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1996-09-26· cited 12×
• Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-03-14· cited 12×
• White v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-10-20· cited 11×

Cites

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

• Glasser v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-09· cited 10,035×
• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Holloway v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1978-04-03· cited 2,478×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Gall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1980-10-14· cited 173×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1980-04-22· cited 61×
• Meadows v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-03-11· cited 49×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-09· cited 45×
• Caine v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1973-02-16· cited 42×
• Tinsley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1973-04-20· cited 41×
• Hudson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1980-04-01· cited 35×
• Leigh v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1972-02-04· cited 32×
• Boyd v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-03-11· cited 32×
• Scott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1973-06-29· cited 30×
• Caldwell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1972-11-17· cited 30×
• Call v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1972-06-30· cited 28×
• Self v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-03-11· cited 27×
• Galbreath v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1973-03-16· cited 26×