Gaines 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 a statute which permitted “testimony from a child who [had] not been declared by the trial court competent to testify as a witness [was] an unconstitutional infringement on the inherent powers of the judiciary”
• holding that a statute which permitted \testimony from a child who [had] not been declared by the trial court competent to testify as a witness [was] an unconstitutional infringement on the inherent powers of the judiciary.\
• statute permitting abused children's videotaped, out-of-court, unsworn testimony
• statute permitting abused children’s videotaped, out-of-court, unsworn testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Long v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-01· cited 195×
• Drumm v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1990-01-18· cited 81×
• Kuprion v. Fitzgerald
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-11-28· cited 71×
• Hester v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1987-06-11· cited 41×
• Ford Motor Co. v. Fulkerson
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-04-11· cited 38×
• Democratic Party of Kentucky v. Graham
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-10-15· cited 32×
• Ballard v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1988-01-21· cited 19×
• Turner v. Kentucky Bar Ass'n
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-12-17· cited 14×
• State v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1999-10-19· cited 13×
• Chambers v. Stengel
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-02-22· cited 3×
• Muse v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1989-09-15· cited 2×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jolly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-19· cited 53×
• Crawley v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 42×
• Alexander v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1985-05-30· cited 24×
• Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. v. Hunt
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1977-04-15· cited 13×
• McClure v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1985-03-15· cited 6×