Elson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that officer’s act of raising “cocaine snifter” vial to streetlight to better inspect its contents did not remove it from “plain view” analysis
• affirming the district court’s decision allowing the state’s chemist to testify at the sentencing hearing by telephone where defense counsel had a copy of the chemist’s report and the chemist was testifying to that report
• chemist permitted to testify in sentencing hearing by telephone as to contents of lab report where defense counsel already had copy of report
• exclusionary rule ordinarily does not require suppression of illegally seized evidence in a sentencing hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Elson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1983-02-18· cited 75×
• Reynolds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-06-10· cited 49×
• Barry v. Lindner
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-12-31· cited 33×
• Aqua Marine Prod. v. Pathe Computer
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1988-12-15· cited 21×
• Coleman v. Risley
  Montana Supreme Court· 1983-03-24· cited 19×
• Burnett v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-03-23· cited 19×
• Cockerham v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1997-02-21· cited 17×
• Bidwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-01-14· cited 17×
• Bryant Murphy v. Tivoli Enterprises, a Foreign Corporation, Exsaco Corporation, a Foreign Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 1992-01-06· cited 14×
• Frankson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-05-28· cited 14×
• Byrd v. Nix
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-09-13· cited 14×
• G. R. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1981-12-24· cited 14×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-06-04· cited 12×
• Jolley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-12-10· cited 3×
• Selig v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2012-09-14· cited 2×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1996-06-14· cited 1×
• GR v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1981-12-24
• Barry v. Lindner
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-08-29
• Orrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-12-10
• State of Alaska v. John William Mckelvey III
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2024-03-08

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• Williams v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-06· cited 2,766×
• Walter v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 793×
• Jose Verdugo and Horace Eugene Turner v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1968-10-07· cited 175×
• People v. Belleci
  California Supreme Court· 1979-08-20· cited 163×
• Erickson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-03-05· cited 129×
• United States v. Joseph F. Schipani
  Second Circuit· 1970-12-10· cited 125×
• Meltzer v. C. Buck LeCraw & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-03· cited 99×
• McCoy v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-11-30· cited 98×
• Moreau v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-12-15· cited 92×
• State v. Sears
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-08-20· cited 88×
• Zehrung v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-09-29· cited 81×
• United States v. Gerald Duane Vandemark
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-07-10· cited 78×
• Nukapigak v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-04-13· cited 75×
• Nukapigak v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-04-14· cited 65×
• Daygee v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-10-12· cited 61×
• Bargas v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-09-27· cited 55×
• Padgett v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-02-16· cited 53×
• Anderson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-10-08· cited 31×
• Eben v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-09-07· cited 30×