Peterson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In our opinions in Waters v. State, 483 P.2d 199 (Alaska 1971) and Robinson v. State, 484 P.2d 686 (Alaska 1971), which were decided after the date of this sentencing, we cautioned against placing reliance on previous ‘contacts’ with the police. We feel constrained herein to note again that mention was made of ‘contacts’ by the trial court and again caution against the reliance on such information in the sentencing process.” Peterson v. State, 487 P.2d 682 , 683 n. 1 (Alaska 1971) ; see Galaktionoff v. State, 486 P.2d 919, 924 (Alaska 1971).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deveroux v. State