Burgess v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1996
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cotton v. Commonwealth · Jewell v. Commonwealth · Butler v. Commonwealth · Mosley v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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