Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 1996
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mulchahey v. State · Rawlings v. State · Soto 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to deprive the owner of property: [[Image here]] (2) he exercises control over the property, other than real property, unlawfully. (b) ... [E]xercising control over property is unlawful if: (1) the actor ... exercises control over the property without the owner’s effective consent; ... ‡ # ‡ ⅜ ⅜ ⅛ (d) An offense under this section is: [[Image here]] (4) a felony of the third degree if: * * * * * * (C) the value of the property stolen is less than $200 and the defendant has been previously convicted two or more times of any grade of theft; .... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gant v. State
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.