Winstead v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that one spouse’s observation of the time the other arrived home was not a nonverbal confidential communication because the spouse’s time of arrival could have been observed by others outside the marriage
• vacating consecutive sentences of life plus twenty years and remanding to trial court for “resentencing that runs the term of years concurrent with [the life sentence]”
• A party must make a clear showing of \manifest necessity\ for a mistrial, and we review a trial court's denial of a 13 motion for a mistrial for an abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-08-20· cited 80×
• Goncalves v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-02-21· cited 44×
• Holt v. Holt
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2015-03-13· cited 31×
• Jacobsen v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-08-23· cited 24×
• Spears v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-12-18· cited 12×
• Patterson v. Winchester
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2016-01-22· cited 2×
• Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Kendall Daugherty
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2026-05-29

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Kuhlmann v. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,205×
• United States v. Henry
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-16· cited 1,013×
• Commonwealth v. Benham
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-09-26· cited 794×
• Winstead v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-05-21· cited 210×
• Overstreet v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2003-02-24· cited 125×
• Ratliff v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-07-28· cited 108×
• Slaven v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-12-18· cited 94×
• United States v. Oscar Fernando Cuevas
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-06-02· cited 82×
• Gould v. Charlton Co., Inc.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1996-09-26· cited 76×
• United States v. Ira Jerome Moore
  Eighth Circuit· 1999-05-28· cited 75×
• Emberton v. GMRI, Inc.
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-10-29· cited 73×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-11-18· cited 72×
• United States v. Cuevas
  Second Circuit· 2007-07-27· cited 69×
• Bedell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-01-31· cited 58×
• Bray v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-09-22· cited 57×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-12-16· cited 55×
• United States v. Robert Banks, Jaime Gomez, Thomas Marmolejas, Danny Mercedes, Andres Peralta, and Diego Mojica, Johnny Martinez
  Second Circuit· 2006-09-12· cited 49×
• Maxie v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-08-22· cited 48×