Jefferson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Sonneman v. Hickel (1992), Adkins v. Lester (1974)
1 district · 29 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 Turner v. Staggs · Reich v. State Highway Department · Port Valdez Company, Inc. v. City of Valdez · Rubey v. City of Fairbanks · Lien v. City of Ketchikan
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A municipal ordinance is not necessarily invalid in Alaska because it is inconsistent or in conflict with a state statute. The question rests on whether the exercise of authority has been prohibited to municipalities. The prohibition must be either by express terms or by implication such as where the statute and ordinance are so substantially irreconcilable that one cannot be given its substantive effect if the other is to be accorded the weight of law.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“A home rule borough or city may exercise all legislative powers not prohibited by law or by charter.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“all legislative powers not prohibited by law or by charter.”
4 later decisions 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.