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← 467 MASS 176 - Commonwealth v. Joyner

Commonwealth v. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
3
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Carchman v. Nash New Jersey Department of Corrections · Commonwealth v. Kozec

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the need to prevent overstatement of the accuracy of fingerprint comparisons, and for additional research.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Gambora permits a fingerprint expert to opine on whether two fingerprints match,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “courts historically have found fingerprint evidence to be admissible,”
    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.