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.

• noting non-constitutional evidentiary errors “‘may be deemed harmless if the reviewing court can say with fair assurance that the judgment was not substantially swayed by the error.’” (quoting Murray v. Commonwealth, 399 S.W.3d 398, 404 (Ky. 2013))
• “[E]vidence of similar [sexual abuse] acts perpetrated against the same victim are almost always admissible[.]”
• “Simply put, the errors that occurred in this case did not rise to the level of reversible cumulative error because we cannot say that anything the trial court did or failed to do rendered Mason’s trial ‘fundamentally unfair.’”

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Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2024-10-24
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  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2025-07-18
• Sarah E. Fisher v. Cala Meike
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2026-05-29
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Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Commonwealth v. English
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1999-06-17· cited 1,274×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-06-17· cited 259×
• Ernst v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-04-21· cited 114×
• McQueen v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-02-16· cited 112×
• Young v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-04-26· cited 110×
• Lanham v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-08-25· cited 101×
• Funk v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1992-09-24· cited 99×
• Noel v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-06-13· cited 73×
• Furnish v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-12-10· cited 72×
• Murray v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-05-23· cited 41×
• King v. Commonwealth
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2018-08-16· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Stone
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2009-08-27· cited 38×
• Lopez v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-05-14· cited 33×
• Conley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1964-10-02· cited 31×
• Daugherty v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-08-20· cited 28×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2011-09-22· cited 16×
• Roberts v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1983-10-12· cited 5×