Howe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2016
10 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 Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite · Balistrieri v. United States · Bates v. United States
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.
“Since the finding of Howe’s guilt could have been affected by the court’s ruling, the considerations which we found persuasive in denying retroactivity to our opinion in State v. Glass, 583 P.2d 872 (Alaska 1978), involving surreptitious monitoring of conversations, are not applicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“saw Howe again and identified him within less than two hours of the robbery”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young 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.