Pruett v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Wentz (1991), Kirby v. State (1987)
36 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 Michel v. United States · State v. Chaney · Austin v. State · State v. Andrews · State v. Wortham
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sentences of ten years or more for conduct equivalent in seriousness to class A felonies under current law have generally been based on isolation as a goal of sentencing and have been reserved for those with a proven record of recidivism, or those whose conduct involved premeditated attempts to kill or seriously injure.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Charles v. State · Wentz v. State“[We conclude that the legislature could not have intended the seven-year presumptive term to apply to those who recklessly commit assault in the first degree, but only a five-year presumptive term to those who, under identical cireumstances, kill their victim. See Sherman v. Holiday Construction Co., 435 P.2d 16, 19 (Alaska 1967) (statutes should be construed to avoid absurd results). We therefore conclude that the legislature intended that Pruett and those similarly situated would be subject to the five-year presumptive term rather than the seven-year presumptive term.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State · ALEXIE v. State“recklessly caus[ing] serious physical injury to another by means of a dangerous instrument.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State · ALEXIE 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.