Johnson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2013
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Sawhill · Shell v. Commonwealth · Walden v. Commonwealth · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Adams' Administrator · Wilson v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he 1984 Amendment declares legislative intent to include vehicular homicide as potentially serious enough to justify a murder conviction, but it does not change the essential nature of the elements of the offense. Wanton murder continues to be distinguished from second-degree manslaughter, KRS 507.040, which also punishes "wantonly caus[ing] the death of another person," by the additional element described in the phrase, "under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life". . . . The difference between wanton murder and involuntary manslaughter (Manslaughter II) continues to be, as the Penal Code originally intended, whether there is evidence from which the jury could find "circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life." Depending on the situation, drunk driving may be such a circumstance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was not operating his coal truck under the influence of alcohol or drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not rise to such a level of wanton conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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