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← 155 Cal. App. 4th 331 - People v. Foster

155 Cal. App. 4th 331 - People v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Cunningham v. California · 52 Cal. 3d 894 - People v. Pieters · 38 Cal. 3d 658 - People v. Memro · 26 Cal. 4th 221 - People v. Toledo · 92 Cal. App. 4th 1359 - People v. Ryan N.

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

  1. “any person who does any of the following is guilty of a public offense and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year or in the state prison: [¶] (1) Knowingly and maliciously prevents or dissuades any witness or victim from attending or giving testimony at any trial, proceeding, or inquiry authorized by law. [¶] (2) Knowingly and maliciously attempts to prevent or dissuade any witness or victim from attending or giving testimony at any trial, proceeding, or inquiry authorized by law.”
    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.