State v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1998
12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * It is generally held that pre-trial discovery of the state's evidence is not permissible. 6 Wigmore, Evidence (3d ed. 1940), § 1859, pages 475, 476.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * previous written statement of a witness should be made available to defendant for possible impeachment on cross-examination of the witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McLean
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.