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← 473 MASS 653 - Commonwealth v. Chamberlin

Commonwealth v. Chamberlin’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2701 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2702 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2703 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 2711 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)

Relies on Smith v. Maryland · United States v. Price · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Vinnie · Commonwealth v. Benoit

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

  1. “precludes the government from asking a service provider to turn over customer records voluntarily”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury”
    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.