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← 457 MASS 715 - Commonwealth v. Gambora

Commonwealth v. Gambora’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
7
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

4 district · 27 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Jones v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Soares

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “stress the subjective nature of the judgments that must be made by the fingerprint examiner at every step of the ACE-V process, including an examiner's ultimate conclusion that a latent print is 'individualized' to a specific, identified, known print.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.