State v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1970 · most notably State v. Bradley (1950), State v. Nasello (1930)
31 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 State v. Meyers · State v. Hopkirk · State v. Cantlin · State v. Donnelly · State v. Paxton
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The indictment charges that the murder was committed in the attempt to rob Atwater, but such statement was wholly unnecessary, as the indictment may be drawn in common form, and then when proof is made that the homicide was done in the perpetration of a robbery, this proof being made is tantamount to that premeditation, deliberation, etc., which otherwise are necessary to be proven, in order to constitute murder in the first degree. State v. Hopkirk, 84 Mo. 278 ; State v. Meyers, 99 Mo. 107 [ 12 S. W. 516 ] ; State v. Donnelly, 130 Mo. 642 , [ 32 S. W. 1124 ]. But the unnecessary statement aforesaid did not vitiate the indictment. Enough was stated outside of the matter in reference to the robbery, which made the indictment good, but we do not approve of the unnecessary averment.””
2 later decisions 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.