Trustees for Alaska v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Fairbanks Fire Fighters Ass'n, Local 1324 v. City of Fairbanks (2002), State v. Alaska Civil Liberties Union (1999)
51 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
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 262 · 30 U.S.C. § 601 · 43 U.S.C. § 870 · 48 U.S.C. § 21
Relies on Flast v. Cohen · Sierra Club v. Morton · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) · Johnson v. United States · Lassen v. Arizona Ex Rel. Arizona Highway Department
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Standing in our state courts is not a constitutional doctrine; rather, it is a rule of judicial self-restraint based on the principle that courts should not resolve abstract questions or issue advisory opinions.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ppropriateness has three main facets: the plaintiff must not be a 'sham plaintiff with no true adversity of interest; he or she must be capable of competently advocating his or her position; and he or she may still be denied standing if 'there is a plaintiff more directly affected by the challenged conduct in question who has or is likely to bring suit,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“except on the basis that the controversy was not of public significance, or on the basis that the plaintiff was not a taxpayer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.