Eppenger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 2005
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Co. v. Kenai Pipe Line Co. · State v. Andrews · Muller v. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. · Neitzel v. State · Manes v. Coats
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it does not seem reasonable that the legislature intended to treat this conduct as a felony when it provided, in a related statute, that unreasonable retention of a car under a written agreement would be punishable as a misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dobberke v. State“[a] person commits the crime of vehicle theft in the first degree if, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe the person has such a right, the person drives, tows away, or takes (1) the car ... of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dobberke v. State“even if the defendant originally obtained the vehicle with permission. 7”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dobberke 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.