Foster v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Coppola v. Commonwealth (1979), Johnson v. State (1982)
29 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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · Rees v. Commonwealth · Fuller v. Commonwealth · Williams v. Commonwealth · Houghtaling v. Commonwealth
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So counsel complained of the county judge's actions at the preliminary hearing not because they were denied the right to present evidence for Williams, but because they were denied the right to discover evidence that might be used by the Commonwealth at a subsequent trial in the circuit court. Neither Code § 19.1-101 [now § 19.2-183] nor any Rule of Court gave counsel for the accused the right to call witnesses at the preliminary hearing for the purpose of discovery. We therefore hold that the county judge was not required to permit counsel to call witnesses for the purpose of discovery, and that the circuit court committed no error in overruling the motion to quash the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Counsel for defendants argued that [a detective's] evidence would be relevant to some of the motions he had made during the preliminary hearing which had been overruled, and that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] preliminary hearing may not be used for the purpose of discovery”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Com. v. Jackson
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.