Waters v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably McClain v. State (1974), State v. Green (1973)
130 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. Chaney · Gilmore v. State
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Smuggling or sale of large quantities of narcotics or possession of large quantities for sale. 2. Smuggling or sale of small quantities of narcotics, or possession of small quantities for sale. 3. Possession of narcotics without intent to sell. 4. Marijuana offenses.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. State · Lausterer v. State“‘‘In sentencing, it should be remembered that the maximum sentence for a particular offense expresses a legislative judgment about how the worst offender within a class designated by the legislature should be treated.” Waters v. State, 483 P.2d 199, 201 (Alaska 1971). “In general, maximum sentences should not be imposed without some foundation for characterizing a defendant as the worst type of offender.” Galaktionoff v. State, 486 P.2d 919, 924 (Alaska 1971).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State · Joe v. State“Given appellant’s seeming inability to cope with his problem of drug addiction and his demonstrated danger to the safety of the community at large, it is imperative that necessary medical, psychiatric, and psychological treatment be made available to appellant during any period of incarceration or supervised parole. We therefore assume that the Division of Corrections and the Parole Board are fully cognizant of these reformative needs and will undertake appropriate measures to bring about appellant’s early return to the status of a non-criminal member of our society.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Huff v. State · Bordewick v. State
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.