Morrison v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding superior court committed clear error by conflating future lost wages with future lost earning capacity when it awarded injured minor only five years of earning capacity damages, on the assumption she would become a non-earning homemaker
• “[W]hile the mortality table is not binding on the court, there must be some evidence in order to justify a departure from the table.”
• future damages must be based on pre-injury life expectancy
• endorsing data for white Alaskan females
• anticipated medical and custodial care

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Precopio v. City of Detroit
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-12-23· cited 86×
• Beeman v. Manville Corp. Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1993-02-17· cited 65×
• State v. I'ANSON
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-11-29· cited 61×
• State v. Guinn
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-09-15· cited 56×
• Grimes v. Haslett
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1982-03-12· cited 48×
• American National Watermattress Corp. v. Manville
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1982-03-26· cited 47×
• Martinez v. Bullock
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-05-22· cited 39×
• Paducah Area Public Library v. Terry
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1983-06-10· cited 28×
• Adkins v. Collens
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2019-07-12· cited 28×
• Pluid v. B.K.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1997-11-28· cited 26×
• Burton v. Fountainhead Development, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2017-03-17· cited 26×
• Curt's Trucking Co. v. City of Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-05-19· cited 24×
• Levar v. Elkins
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-01-04· cited 23×
• Brandner v. Hudson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2007-11-09· cited 22×
• Irving v. Bullock
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-05-10· cited 21×
• American National Bank & Trust Co. v. Thompson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-06-29· cited 21×
• United States v. Bedonie
  D. Utah· 2004-05-11· cited 18×
• Marie Yako, as Guardian and Natural Mother of Daniel Yako, a Minor and Marie Yako v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-12-11· cited 14×
• Abille v. United States
  N.D. California· 1980-01-02· cited 13×
• Keenan v. Meyer
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2018-07-20· cited 11×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Beaulieu v. Elliott
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1967-12-05· cited 149×
• State v. Abbott
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-06-16· cited 145×
• Alaska Foods, Inc. v. American Manufacturer's Mutual Insurance Co.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-03-18· cited 92×
• City of Fairbanks v. Nesbett
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1967-10-23· cited 79×
• Patrick v. Sedwick
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1966-04-21· cited 69×
• Hallada v. Great Northern Railway
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1955-02-25· cited 65×
• Florida Greyhound Lines v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1952-08-01· cited 58×
• John Alexander and Annie Alexander v. Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
  Second Circuit· 1959-11-02· cited 39×
• Goldstein v. Walters
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1961-01-27· cited 15×
• Walker v. Alaska Road Commission
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1964-01-23· cited 13×
• Hamilton v. Lotto
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1964-04-30· cited 11×