Nelson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that defendant had several lawful alternatives and that “[t]he seriousness of the offenses committed by Nelson were disproportionate to the situation he faced.”
• finding that defendant had several lawful alternatives and that \[t]he seriousness of the offenses committed by Nelson were disproportionate to the situation he faced.\
• evaluating adequacy of necessity instruction in case where defendant was accused of joyriding in highway vehicle to recover truck from marsh
• describing the necessity defense in terms of the lesser of two evils
• describing the necessity defense in terms of the lesser of two evils

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cleveland v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-07-24· cited 70×
• State v. Warshow
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1979-12-21· cited 42×
• Buckley v. City of Falls Church
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-09-06· cited 28×
• Gerlach v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-05-10· cited 27×
• State v. Kurtz
  Washington Supreme Court· 2013-09-19· cited 18×
• Reeve v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-11-25· cited 17×
• Seibold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-05-29· cited 16×
• Degler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1987-08-21· cited 15×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-02-10· cited 14×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-12-07· cited 12×
• State v. Garrison
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2007-11-09· cited 12×
• McGee v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2007-07-27· cited 10×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2005-11-18· cited 8×
• Pasco v. State, Department of Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2002-04-12· cited 4×
• Vaden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1987-09-15· cited 3×
• Clinton R. Strong v. State of Alaska, Tuie Strong v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2022-04-01· cited 3×
• Muller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2008-11-21· cited 2×
• Perrin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2003-03-21· cited 2×
• Greenwood v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2010-08-20· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Delos Reyes
  Sup. Ct. of the Comm. of the N. Mariana Islands· 1996-04-12

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Marley
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1973-05-04· cited 86×
• Townsend v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1938-02-07· cited 86×
• United States v. Ashton
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts· 1834-10-15· cited 24×