Wasson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Since the value of stolen property is clearly an element of a larceny offense, it necessarily follows that a former statute providing a lesser value for purposes of qualifying as felony grand larceny does not “have [elements] substantially identical to those of a felony defined as such under [current] Alaska law.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Walsh v. State · Lee v. State

2. “a conviction in this or another jurisdiction of an offense having elements similar to those of a felony defined as such under Alaska law at the time the offense was committed is considered a prior felony conviction.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Walsh v. State · Wright v. State

3. “(a) For purposes of considering prior convictions in imposing sentence under this chapter (2) a conviction in this or another jurisdiction of an offense having elements substantially identical to those of a felony defined as such under Alaska law is considered a prior felony conviction....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Harlow v. State