Alaska Legislative Council v. Knowles’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2023
18 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 Ex Rel. Sego v. Kirkpatrick · Bengzon v. Secretary of Justice of Philippine Islands · Commonwealth v. Dodson · 144 Wis. 2d 429 - State Ex Rel. Wisconsin Senate v. Thompson · 382 So. 2d 654 - Brown v. Firestone
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable and practical interpretation in accordance with common sense based upon the plain meaning and purpose of the provision and the intent of the framers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Obviously the word item can not be given different meanings within the same sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a sum of money dedicated to a particular purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.