Fields v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• vacating a nine-year sentence with four years suspended and holding that the sentence should not exceed six years with three years suspended for fraudulent sale of $25,500 in securities by an offender with no significant prior record
• \Evidence of other offenses or misconduct is often relevant to show that the charged offense was part of an overall scheme or plan to defraud.\
• sentence of nine years with four years suspended was reversed. The supreme court held that the sentence should not exceed six years with three suspended. Fields had no significant criminal record, and received about $25,500 through fraudulent sales of securities
• prior bad check charge not admissible to show defendant’s insolvency
• prior bad check charge not admissible to show defendant's insolvency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lerchenstein v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-04-05· cited 62×
• State v. Lerchenstein
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1986-10-16· cited 39×
• Moor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-11-08· cited 37×
• Swain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-09-20· cited 21×
• State v. Bumpus
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1991-11-08· cited 21×
• Hines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-08-02· cited 18×
• Garner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-01-03· cited 13×
• Conley v. Alaska Communications Systems Holdings, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2014-05-09· cited 11×
• Montes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-09-30· cited 10×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-12-06· cited 9×
• Stevens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-01-22· cited 9×
• Hancock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-09-27· cited 7×
• Lamont v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1997-03-28· cited 6×
• Karr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-03-25· cited 4×
• Preston v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-10-09· cited 4×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2009-07-17· cited 3×
• Capwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-12-20· cited 2×
• Short v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-02-17· cited 1×
• Mathison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-09-21· cited 1×
• Alward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1989-01-27· cited 1×

Cites

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

• State v. Chaney
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-12-07· cited 600×
• McClain v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-03-15· cited 593×
• Love v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-08-08· cited 340×
• Peterson v. Mathews
  Supreme Court· 1975-10-06· cited 162×
• Frink v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-06-29· cited 121×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,032 United States of America v. Edward Henry Ashdown and Charles E. Graham, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-04-17· cited 116×
• United States v. McDonald
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-05-04· cited 105×
• Des Jardins v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-06-11· cited 94×
• Freeman v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-07-02· cited 64×
• United States v. Austin
  Tenth Circuit· 1972-06-26· cited 56×
• Andrews v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-07-14· cited 53×
• Amidon v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-06-02· cited 47×
• Oksoktaruk v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-05-09· cited 37×
• Eubanks v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-12-03· cited 36×
• Harper v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1944-06-30· cited 36×
• Griggs v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1908-02-03· cited 27×
• Gould v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-06-02· cited 25×
• Scharver v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-03-21· cited 25×
• Huff v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-08-10· cited 23×
• Nattrass v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-09-06· cited 21×