Alam v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2020
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Dorman v. State · People v. Cassidy · Nix v. State · Levshakoff v. State · Brown v. Anchorage
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Definitions. In AS 11.41.300-11.41.-370, unless the context requires otherwise, [[Image here]] (3) “restrain” means to restrict a person’s movements unlawfully and without consent, so as to interfere substantially with the person’s liberty by moving the person from one place to another or by confining the person either in the place where the restriction commences or in a place to which the person has been moved; a restraint is “without consent” if it is accomplished [[Image here]] (B) by force, threat, or deception.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McDonald · Alam v. State“significant confinement or movement of the victim beyond that necessary to commit the sexual assault.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[mJovements that are merely incidental to the commission of another crime”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hurd v. State · Cleveland 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.