Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Montana v. Egelhoff (1996), Foster v. Chatman (2016)
2 federal appellate · 78 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Batson v. Kentucky · Wainwright v. Witt · Felker 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person shall not be found guilty of a crime if, at the time of the act, omission, or negligence constituting the crime, the person did not have mental capacity to distinguish between right and wrong in relation to such act, omission, or negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKelvin v. State“[t]elling [an accused] that a confession is not going to hurt and, on the contrary, will benefit him as much as the police, is not consistent with the warnings required by Miranda.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spence v. State“after he was told repeatedly that it was not going to hurt `a thing,' and that it would be `as much for your benefit as ours.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spence v. State
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.