Foster v. Upchurch’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · St. Amant v. Thompson · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Federal Power Commission · Time Incorporated v. Pape · Foster v. Laredo Newspapers, Inc.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The death nearly three years ago of Juan Veloz Zuniga after the Culberson County sheriff beat him over the head with a sawed-off pool cue set off a furor across much of Texas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. Upchurch
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.