Yates v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• threatened revelation of young victim’s secret relationship with older boy, which if reported by the victim’s mother could result in criminal charges and harm to victim’s boyfriend, did not constitute a threat of immediate death or physical injury to another person.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Murphy v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2017-02-16· cited 67×
• Romero-Perez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2016-06-24· cited 26×
• Yates v. Commonwealth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-02-15· cited 3×
• William Sloss v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2024-10-24
• Isaiah Brown v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2025-08-14

Cites

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

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Trammel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-02-27· cited 1,217×
• Winstead v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-05-21· cited 210×
• Springer v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-05-03· cited 185×
• Edmonds v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-04-20· cited 118×
• Matthews v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-05-19· cited 106×
• Padgett v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-03-18· cited 104×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-06-13· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Barroso
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-12-18· cited 92×
• Barnett v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 85×
• Webb v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2012-11-21· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Maddox
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-10-30· cited 67×
• Simpson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-12-22· cited 50×
• Major v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-02-03· cited 46×
• Sisters of Charity Health Systems, Inc. v. Raikes
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-03-03· cited 42×
• Bratcher v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-12-16· cited 36×
• Blair v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-09-23· cited 35×
• Combs v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-07-05· cited 33×
• Yarnell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-06-25· cited 30×