Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2256
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. Loy · United States v. Guagliardo · Smith 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A probationer has a due process right to conditions of supervised release that are sufficiently clear to inform him of what conduct will result in his being returned to prison.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hunter v. State · Harris v. State“possess or view any pornographic or sexually explicit material (including: books, magazines, computer images, internet files, photographs, VCR cassettes, film or other materials)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farrell v. Burke“the condition of probation does not define sexually explicit or pornographic”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farrell v. Burke
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.