Boyd 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 witness testimony improper where they “testified to events that they did not perceive in real time[]”
• concluding witnesses lacked personal knowledge of events captured in video when they “did not perceive [the events] in real time”
• finding that lay witnesses could narrate segments of a recording depicting events they “perceived in real time,” but not parts of the video “they did not perceive in real time”
• “We established in Morgan that narration of video footage is permissible under certain circumstances, and improper when the witnesses interpret the footage or offer an opinion[.]”
• “We established in Morgan that narration of video footage is permissible under certain circumstances, and improper when the witnesses interpret the footage or offer an opinion[.]”
• “We established in Morgan that narration of video footage is permissible under certain circumstances, and improper when the witnesses interpret the footage or offer an opinion[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Prescott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2019-04-05· cited 53×
• Baker v. Com. of Ky.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-04-26· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-08-20· cited 6×
• Sheets v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-08-25· cited 3×
• Callaham v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2022-02-03
• State v. Quintin D. Watson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2023-08-02
• Ronald Simpson v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2025-08-14
• Eric E Taylor v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2025-09-12

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. English
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-06-17· cited 1,274×
• Winstead v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-05-21· cited 210×
• Stringer v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 148×
• Ernst v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-04-21· cited 114×
• Lanham v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-08-25· cited 101×
• Graves v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-01-20· cited 100×
• Alexander v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1993-05-27· cited 61×
• Maxie v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-08-22· cited 48×
• Thompson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1993-10-01· cited 47×
• United States v. White
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-04-06· cited 43×
• Cuzick v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-01-22· cited 34×
• Morgan v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-02-20· cited 34×
• Blades v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-05-19· cited 6×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1982-09-03· cited 5×