Griffith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2013
5 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 Buchanan v. State · Roth v. State · Huske v. Municipality of Anchorage
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe that [AS 12.55.145(a)(1)] ... allows only one interpretation. Whe[n] a defendant has spent [ten] years between the date of his unconditional discharge [from] his most recent prior felony without committing another felony, he is [treated as a first felony offender]. Whe[n,] however, less than [ten] years separates his unconditional discharge [from] a prior felony [and] the commission of his current offenseL] then all prior offenses],] however remotef,] may be considered for purposes of presumptive sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilley v. State“For purposes of considering prior convictions in imposing sentence under [any of the presumptive sentencing provisions of AS 12.55.125], ... a prior conviction may not be considered if a period of 10 or more years has elapsed between the date of the defendant’s unconditional discharge on the immediately preceding offense and [the defendant’s] commission of the present offense unless the prior conviction was for an unclassified or class A felony[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilley 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.