Kuvaas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2004
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 Cassell 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f we do not apply the definition of felony conviction in AS 12.55.145(a)(2), we must either have no definition of what a prior “felony .charge or conviction” is under AS 12.55.155(c)(2) or we must make one out of whole cloth. It seems to us to be preferable to use the definition of felony conviction which is set forth in AS 12.55.145(a)(2). This construction ... appears to be consistent with the rule of statutory construction that “ambiguities in penal statutes must be narrowly read and construed strictly against the government.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mancini v. State“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[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mancini v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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