Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1989
4 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. Dickinson · Sullivan v. State · Barrow v. State · Evans v. . the People · Rodermund v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In State v. Dickinson, 41 Wis. 299 , the court had before it a case where the death of the pregnant mother was produced, and the statement that ‘it is not material whether the pregnant woman be quick with child or not/ was correct under the facts there existing. . . . The legislature saw fit to enact sec. 4583, a law making it an offense to produce a criminal miscarriage. It also made it a graver offense by sec. 4352 to produce a criminal abortion resulting in the death of a quick child or of its mother. Both the quick child and the mother are human beings — hence to unlawfully kill either constitutes manslaughter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walters
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.