Lemon v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding the judge's authority, in a prosecution for escape, to take judicial notice of the conviction for which the defendant was serving his sentence at the time of the escape
• police “contacts” were contained in presentence reports; the sentencing judges were aware of the results of these “contacts” and removed “the spectre of prejudicial error”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Risher v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-06-17· cited 148×
• Concerned Citizens of South Kenai Peninsula v. Kenai Peninsula Borough
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-10-21· cited 118×
• Commonwealth v. LeBlanc
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-05-04· cited 51×
• Buchanan v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-03-14· cited 47×
• Massey v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1982-08-16· cited 30×
• Lemon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-10-29· cited 15×
• Davis v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-04-14· cited 13×
• Whitton v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-04-01· cited 13×
• Lane v. Ballot
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2014-07-25· cited 13×
• Buchanan v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-09-27· cited 11×
• State v. A.M.W.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2025-08-14

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Chaney
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-12-07· cited 600×
• McClain v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-03-15· cited 593×
• Waters v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-03-25· cited 161×
• Robinson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-05-07· cited 58×
• Lemon v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-10-15· cited 36×
• Adams v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-04-22· cited 30×
• Robinson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-12-30· cited 26×
• Nizinski v. Currington
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-01-02· cited 19×
• Peterson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-07-29· cited 16×
• Nicholson v. Sorensen
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-12-28· cited 16×