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Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

67
cited by 67 later decisions
2
states following
January 2013
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Hatch v. Oklahoma (1995), State v. Bey (1988)

2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions

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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 Strickland v. Washington · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Mincey v. Arizona · Jurek v. Texas

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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a]lthough such a practice may be allowed by a trial judge, it is an extraordinary measure... . Unless the danger of prejudicing the jurors by exposure to damaging information is a grave problem or some special purpose would be served, it is unlikely that individual voir dire would be justified. We find no abuse of discretion in not allowing the procedure.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Sellers v. State · Tibbs v. State
  2. “aggravating circumstance, 21 O.S. 1981 , § 701.12(7), is vague and overbroad, that no particularized guidance has been provided to construe the same, that it is being evaluated in an arbitrary manner, and that the trial court should have specifically defined its elements. This Court has previously addressed these issues and held that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Clayton v. State
  3. “Robbery, the predicate felony in second degree felony murder, cannot be accomplished with a dangerous weapon.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hatch v. Oklahoma

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.