Foster v. People of State of Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
332 U.S. 134 · 1947
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 18 district · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 338 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Carnley v. Cochran (1962)
75 federal appellate · 18 district · 151 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Mooney v. Holohan · Betts v. Brady
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 338 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an ingredient of unfairness actively operated in the process that resulted in his confinement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“open[ ] wide the prison doors of the land.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cash v. Culver · State v. Giddings““We reject such a claim. Most incarcerations are upon pleas of guilty, and probably most such pleas have been made without the felt need of counsel. It is not for us to suggest that it might be desirable to offer to every accused who desires to plead guilty the opportunities for counsel and to enter with formality upon the record the deliberate disclaimer of his need for counsel because of a ■ full appreciation of the meaning of a plea of guilty as expounded by responsible judges.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haughey v. Smyth
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.