State v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Davis (2005), State v. Darden (2002)
64 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 Davis v. Alaska · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Bourjaily v. United States
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right ... to meet the witnesses against him face to face.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Price · State v. Martin“(1) On motion of the prosecuting attorney in a criminal proceeding, the court may order that a child under the age of ten may testify in a room outside the presence of the defendant and the jury while one-way closed circuit television equipment simultaneously projects the child’s testimony into another room so the defendant and the jury can watch and hear the child testify if: (a) The testimony will describe an act or attempted act of sexual contact performed with or on the child by another. (c) The court finds by substantial evidence, in a hearing conducted outside the presence of the jury, that requiring the child to testify in the presence of the defendant will cause the child to suffer serious emotional or mental distress that will prevent the child from reasonably communicating at the trial. (h) When the court allows the child to testify outside the presence of the defendant, the defendant can communicate constantly with the defense attorney by electronic transmission and be granted reasonable court recesses during the child’s testimony for person-to-person consultation with the defense attorney.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shafer · State v. Smith“a strict reading of the confrontation clause in article I, section 22 does not implicate hearsay concerns. . . . Under the hearsay exceptions, a value judgment has already been made that the accused is not entitled to confront those persons making qualifying statements.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Smith · State v. Sandoval
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.