Graham v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “judges should not carelessly subject themselves to lengthy presentations whose primary purpose and effect is to engender emotions that will improperly influence the judge’s sentencing decision”
• noting “the mistaken rationale that these statements qualified as ‘victim impact’ statements under AS 12.55.023(b)”
• aptly describing video montages at issue as “the type of videos that are designed to evoke emotion and are commonly played at memorial services” and reciting playlist for each video

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jerel Tremayne Williams v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2021-01-15· cited 3×
• State of Alaska v. Stacey Allen Graham
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2022-07-22· cited 1×

Cites

31 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×
• State v. Wortham
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-07-03· cited 128×
• Pears v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1985-05-03· cited 90×
• Page v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-01-21· cited 83×
• Newsom v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-04-03· cited 65×
• Leuch v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-09-25· cited 62×
• Cleary v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-04-12· cited 61×
• State v. Lancaster
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-03-08· cited 40×
• Karr v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1984-07-13· cited 40×
• Sandvik v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-05-06· cited 32×
• Layland v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-05-17· cited 31×
• Kelly v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-01-23· cited 26×
• Benefield v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-01-17· cited 24×
• State v. Bumpus
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1991-11-08· cited 21×
• Gustafson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1993-06-18· cited 19×
• Clemans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-04-27· cited 18×
• Pusich v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-11-24· cited 17×
• Rosendahl v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-03-02· cited 17×
• Godwin v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-06-18· cited 17×
• Smothers v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-06-09· cited 16×