Atkinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
November 1992
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Chaney · Austin v. State · Juneby v. State · Juneby v. State · Brezenoff 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We use the phrase “typical offense” as a term of art to describe those situations in which statutory aggravating or mitigating factors are not established or if established would not, in the light of the totality of the circumstances, warrant a court considering a presumptive sentence. If the facts of a given case would not warrant aggravation or mitigation of a presumptive term, the case is a typical offense and the same factors would not warrant deviation from the Austin rule. An atypical offense, in contrast is one in which either aggravators or mitigating factors preponderate to the point that modification of an otherwise presumptive term would be warranted. We recognize that cases which could properly be sentenced under AS 12.55.165-.175 would also qualify as atypical offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dymenstein v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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