State v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Conyers v. State (1999), Thomas v. State (1984)
58 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 Watson v. State · Tasco v. State · Alston v. Forsythe · Anello v. State · Christ v. Wempe
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ttention should not be focused on a particular portion lifted out of context, but rather its adequacy is determined by viewing it as a whole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he generally accepted test as to whether a witness is an accomplice is whether he himself could be convicted for the offense, either as a principal or accessory before the fact.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.