Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
March 2016
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Commonwealth · State v. Carlson · Peters v. State · State v. Rastopsoff · Gonzales 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.
“As we explained in Smith, [prior Alaska cases on this point] demonstrate an important presumption of Alaska law: before a defendant's sentence can be enhanced based on a prior offense, the government ordinarily must prove that the defendant was judicially confronted with his prior misconduct and was given an opportunity for reformation before the defendant committed the current offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wooley v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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