State v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State v. Davis (2005), State v. Darden (2002)
28 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Bourjaily v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right ... to meet the witnesses against him face to face.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Price · State v. Martin“consideration of this factor is always the same; that is that the United States Constitution is a grant of limited power to the federal government, while the state constitution imposes limitations on the otherwise plenary power of the state.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a strict reading of the confrontation clause in article I, section 22 does not implicate hearsay concerns. . . . Under the hearsay exceptions, a value judgment has already been made that the accused is not entitled to confront those persons making qualifying statements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Smith · State v. Sandoval
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.