Foster v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
282 F.2d 222 · 1960
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably United States v. Hoffa (1965), United States v. Dickey (1984)
53 federal appellate · 3 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 Glasser v. United States · Alford v. United States · District of Columbia v. Clawans · Ewing v. United States · United States v. Masino
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the last analysis the trial court is the governor of the trial with the duty to assure its proper conduct and the limits of cross-examination necessarily lie within its discretion. And we should not overrule the exercise of that discretion unless we are convinced that the ruling of the court was prejudicial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“tends to confuse the issues and promote unfair surprise and multifariousness.”
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.