LaBarbera v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2021
11 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 McClain v. State · Rust v. State · Abraham v. State · Rust 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Rust we recognized a prisoner’s right to necessary medical services, including psychological and psychiatric treatment, and [we also recognized] the authority of the judiciary to enforce that right upon a proper showing in an independent civil action. 584 P.2d at 39 . Subsequently, in Abraham v. State, 585 P.2d 526 (Alaska 1978), Rust was extended to encompass a prisoner’s right to a rehabilitation program under article I, section 12, of the Alaska Constitution and AS 33.30.020. However, our recognition of the right to rehabilitation does not imply that a court at the time sentence is pronounced has the authority to designate a particular facility for incarceration of the defendant or a particular program for his rehabilitation. It is only after a demonstrated failure to provide an appropriate rehabilitation program that judicial intervention is proper. Thus the superior court in this case correctly concluded that it could not grant the relief requested in LaBarbera’s motion for modification of sentence.”
2 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.