Mason 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 “[T]he insanity instruction offered by the defense was identical to that given by the trial court. Having requested the instruction Mason is now precluded from complaining of its content.”
• jury should not be informed of presumption of sanity in criminal cases
• jury should not be informed of presumption of sanity in criminal cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sargent v. Shaffer
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-08-26· cited 142×
• Whorton v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-07-25· cited 48×
• Noakes v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-10-27· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Collins
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1991-11-21· cited 27×
• Harper v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 24×
• Ratliff v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-06-13· cited 24×
• Sexton ex rel. Sexton v. Bell Helmets, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-02-05· cited 9×
• Chad Sexton v. Bell Helmets, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-02-26· cited 6×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1979-05-25· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Southwood
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1981-11-24· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-12-19· cited 1×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hankerson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 586×
• Wells v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-01-10· cited 131×
• Terry v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1963-10-18· cited 19×
• Hopper v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1974-12-13· cited 14×
• Bennett v. Craycraft
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1956-02-24· cited 3×
• Day v. Kelsey
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1968-11-08· cited 2×