Larson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably State v. Andrews (1985), Yearty v. State (1991)
32 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 · State v. Chaney · Tuten v. United States · Waters v. State · Juneby 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“AS 12.55.155 provides, in pertinent part: (c) The following factors shall be considered by the sentencing court and may aggravate the presumptive terms set out in AS 12.55.125: [[Image here]] (8) the defendant's prior criminal history includes conduct involving aggravated or repeated instances of assaultive behavior. [[Image here]] (21) the defendant has a criminal history of repeated instances of conduct violative of criminal laws, whether punishable as felonies or misdemeanors, similar in nature to the offense for which the defendant is being sentenced under this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“did not change the fact that a conviction had taken place or establish that [the appellant] had not previously committed a robbery”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the conduct constituting the offense was among the most serious conduct included in the definition of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nashoalook 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.