Burgess v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding “that laymen who have had the opportunity by association and observation to form an opinion as to the sanity of a person, may testify to that opinion, giving the facts upon which the opinion is based so the jury may determine the weight to be given to the evidence.”

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Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-08-20· cited 80×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1996-12-19· cited 33×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cotton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1970-05-29· cited 76×
• Jewell v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1977-03-11· cited 55×
• Butler v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-01-10· cited 21×
• Mosley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1967-11-10· cited 15×