State v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
July 1988
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hand v. Nickerson · State v. Colburn · Huot v. Gendron · State v. Bailey · State v. Michaud
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he Law Court retains power to make its own independent determination whether in all the circumstances of a given case its decision ‘on report’ would be consistent with the Court’s basic functions as an appellate tribunal.” State v. Foley, Me., 366 A.2d 172, 173 (1976).”
2 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.