State v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2001
13 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 Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen v. Southern Railway Co. · 30 Cal. 2d 676 - People v. Eggers · People v. Cole · 41 Cal. 2d 832 - People v. Deloney · 65 Cal. 2d 752 - People v. Saterfield
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish the crime of first degree murder, direct evidence of a deliberate and premeditated purpose to kill is not required. The necessary elements of deliberation and premeditation may be inferred from the proof of such facts and circumstances as will furnish a reasonable foundation for such an inference, and where the evidence is not in law insufficient, the matter is exclusively within the province of the trier of fact to determine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Babb · State v. Johnson“18-4001. Murder defined. — Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought____”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Aragon
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.