State v. Foreshaw’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Austin (1998), State v. Tweedy (1991)
85 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 Washington v. Texas · State v. Golding · Kahn v. Grant · State v. Evans · In re Martin-Trigona
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that at the time the defendant discarded the gun, no official proceeding had in fact been instituted. The statute, however, speaks to that which is readily apt to come into existence or be contemplated and thus plainly applies to the official proceeding arising out of such an incident. The crucial role police involvement would play in that process cannot be disputed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“we hold that in determining whether the defendant has proven the affirmative defense of an extreme emotional disturbance by a fair preponderance of the evidence as a mitigation of murder to manslaughter the jury must find that: (a) the emotional disturbance is not a mental disease or defect that rises to the level of insanity as defined in the Penal Code; (b) the defendant was exposed to an extremely unusual and overwhelming state, that is, not mere annoyance or unhappiness; and (c) the defendant had an extreme emotional reaction to it, as CT Page 14143 a result of which there was a loss of self-control, and reason was overborne by extreme intense feelings such as passion, anger, distress, grief, excessive agitation or other similar emotions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An official proceeding includes any proceeding held or that may be held before any judicial official authorized to take evidence under oath. " (Emphasis added.) Thus, the official proceeding was not limited to a prosecution of Rajewski, but included a prosecution of Babcock, Moulson, or the defendant. Accordingly, we disagree with the defendant's interpretation of the "official proceeding”
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.