Foster v. Redding’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably State v. Bolsinger (1946), Frick v. Abell (1979)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 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 Millington v. Hiedloff · Clark v. Small
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, conscious of his conduct and the existing conditions, he [defendant] knew or should have known, that the injury would probably result, the requirements of the statute are met.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““One who is willfully and wantonly negligent may not be intoxicated, but one who, sufficiently under the influence of liquor to impair his capacity as a driver, or who has just consumed intoxicants sufficient to speedily reduce him to incapacity, yet sufficiently sober to know he is undertaking a sober man’s job, puts himself at the wheel of an automobile and takes the road, is guilty of a willful and wanton disregard of the rights of all persons who ride with him or use the highway he travels.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bolsinger
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.