State v. Alex’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably State v. Courchesne (2003), Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Co. v. Kenai Pipe Line Co. (1987)
3 district · 92 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 Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Katz v. Carte Blanche Corp. · Fiorella v. United States · United States v. Sisson
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ince words are necessarily inexact and ambiguity is a relative concept, we ... turn to the legislative history, mindful that the plainer the language, the more convincing contrary legislative history must be.[ 13 ]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fyfe · Chokwak v. Worley“any dedication for special purposes existing upon the date of ratification of this section by the people of Alaska.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even those persons or interests who seek the dedication of revenues for their own projects will admit that the earmarking of taxes or fees for other interests is a fiscal evil. But if allocation is permitted for one interest the denial of it to another is difficult, and the more special funds are set up the more difficult it becomes to deny other requests until the point is reached where neither the governor nor the legislature has any real control over the finances of the state.”
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.