Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 728 So. 2d 565 - Kirksey v. State (1999), 859 So. 2d 320 - McGowen v. State (2003)
33 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 Strickland v. Washington · 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State · 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State · 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State · 574 So. 2d 685 - McQuarter 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“against the peace and dignity of the State of Mississippi.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Plain error occurs when it is established that an error not raised previously affects fundamental rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Any claim is waived for failure to raise a contemporaneous objection.”
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.