Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2014
10 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 Allen v. United States · Ortiz v. State · Brannum v. State · Kingery v. State · Schrenker v. Clifford
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) there is a disagreement among the jurors as to any part of the testimony; or (2) the jury desires to be informed as to any point of law arising in the case; the jury may request the officer to conduct them into court, where the information required shall be given in the presence of, or after notice to, the parties or the attorneys representing the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Once the trial court, in the exercise of its discretion, has determined that a question posed ... by the jury relates to ... the jury’s “desire to be informed as to any point of law arising in the cased’ Ind.Code § 34-36-1-6 (emphasis added), the court then must supply the request ed information, to the extent that it consists of [an] answer to the legal question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“automatically and mechanically every time the jury requests it”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henri v. Curto
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.