Commonwealth v. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
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.
“the need to prevent overstatement of the accuracy of fingerprint comparisons, and for additional research.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Gambora permits a fingerprint expert to opine on whether two fingerprints match,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“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.