Commonwealth v. Fontaine’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
August 2021
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brinegar v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Johnson v. United States · Nix v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Cinelli
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the question is whether reasonable and prudent people would act on the basis of the information gathered by the police, not whether the information would satisfy legal technicians.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In reviewing affidavits in support of search warrants, we allow 'considerable latitude' for the drawing of inferences”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“odor of unburnt marijuana ..., standing alone, does not provide ... probable cause to conduct a search”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Long
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.