State v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably State v. Altgilbers (1989), State v. Johnson (1985)
50 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 State v. Roy · State v. Gunzelman · State v. Lott · State v. McNeece · State v. Buchanan
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every accused has the right to be informed of the crime with which he is charged in sufficient detail to enable him to prepare his defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carr · Sanchez v. State“[i]f it was the first or second act for which the defendant was tried, then [the victim’s] guardian would not have been competent to testify with reference to it since it was only the third act he witnessed. In addition, evidence of the other acts may have been inadmissible under Rules of Evidence 404, § 20-4-404, N.M.S.A.1953 (Repl.Vol.4, 1970, Supp.1973), if it was only the third act for which defendant was on trial. Defendant still does not know for which act he was convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Myers
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.