387 So. 2d 344 - Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 507 So. 2d 1377 - Blanco v. Wainwright (1987), 476 So. 2d 172 - Mills v. State (1985)
45 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 · Holloway v. Arkansas · 301 So. 2d 7 - State v. Barber · Belton v. State · Baker v. State
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To deny a motion for separate representation, where a risk of conflicting interests exists, is reversible error.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rock v. State · Wright v. State“The Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel contemplates legal representation that is effective and unimpaired by the existence of conflicting interests being represented by a single attorney.”
3 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.