Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991), 533 So. 2d 1078 - Nixon v. State (1987)
39 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 437 So. 2d 19 - Box v. State · 471 So. 2d 332 - Cabello v. State · 468 So. 2d 45 - Fuselier v. State · 436 So. 2d 1381 - Morris v. State · 460 So. 2d 126 - Barnes 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y no means does this mean invariably that the defendant will be entitled to a continuance until the next term of court. There will no doubt be cases where postponement of a day or two, or in some cases even an hour or two, will suffice.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Dahl v. State · West v. State“a written request made by the defense is all that is necessary to impose upon the prosecution the obligation to make discovery and to make discovery seasonably.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“names and addresses of all witnesses in chief proposed to be offered by the prosecution at trial.”
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.