Commonwealth v. Fulgiam’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2073 · 18 U.S.C. § 2510 (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 Katz v. United States · Crawford v. Washington · United States v. Jacobsen · Smith v. Maryland · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“During the analyst's testimony, counsel for Fulgiam preemptively objected to any questioning by the Commonwealth regarding whether the analyst's findings were verified by another fingerprint examiner. While the judge sustained the objection, the judge indicated that the witness would be allowed to testify that another fingerprint analyst reviewed her work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fulgiam v. Kenneway“repeatedly has explained that 'probable cause' to justify an arrest means facts and circumstances within the officer's knowledge that are sufficient to warrant a prudent person, or one of reasonable caution, in believing, in the circumstances shown, that the suspect has committed, is committing, or is about to commit an offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when a latent print examiner comes to a conclusion that there is a sufficient amount of detail of quality and quantity ... between the latent print and the known fingerprint ... to establish that the latent print originated from the known print ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fulgiam v. Kenneway
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.