Foster v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.2d 65 · 1961
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 1983 · most notably United States v. Uptain (1976), Downs v. United States (1975)
23 federal appellate · 5 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002)
Relies on Hester v. United States · Giacona v. United States · Sparks v. United States · Brown v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the performance of his duty requires an officer of the law to enter upon private property, his conduct, otherwise a trespass, is justifiable.”
4 later decisions 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.