Whitehead v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2011
6 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 Roman v. State · Patterson v. State · Whittlesey v. State · Boyne v. State · LaBarbera 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a series of cases starting with Boyne v. State, [ 586 P.2d 1250 (Alaska 1978),] the Alaska Supreme Court and this court have held that sentencing courts must have explicit legislative authorization before imposing conditions of probation that fundamentally alter the nature of the probation. For instance, in Boyne itself, the supreme court held that a sentencing court may not impose imprisonment as a condition of SIS probation. [Id. at 1251.] ... Sex offender registration is obviously less burdensome than incarceration. We are mindful that probationers have traditionally been required to apprise their probation officers of their place of residence and their place of employment. Nevertheless, sex offender registration entails more than simply informing a probation officer of one's residence and place of employment. Under the sex offender registration law, a defendant must supply this information (as well as other personal information) for dissemination to the public at large. ... [TJhe Alaska Legislature specifically amended Criminal Rule 11(c) to require judges to inform defendants about the sex offender registration requirement before accepting a guilty plea to a sex offense. [citation omitted] We inferred, from the legislature's action, that the legislature viewed sex offender registration as a serious consequence of conviction and "that the legislature believed it would be unfair to allow defendants to plead guilty to a sex offense without first telling them about the re”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. State“that the legislature believed it would be unfair to allow defendants to plead guilty to a sex offense without first telling them about the registration requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. State
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