People v. Pratt

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that when the language of a federal and local statute are very similar, federal case law may be instructive when interpreting the local law
• stating that when a local statute is known to be modeled after a federal statute, federal case law may be instructive when interpreting the local law
• considering the language of a virtually identical federal statute to interpret the local statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• In re People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-05-13· cited 62×
• Brunn v. Dowdye
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-10-11· cited 38×
• Mulley v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-06-23· cited 36×
• Nicholas v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-06-06· cited 33×
• Haynes v. Ottley
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-12-01· cited 32×
• First American Development Group/Carib, LLC v. WestLB AG
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2011-07-26· cited 31×
• Rodriguez v. Bureau of Corrections
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-04-29· cited 31×
• Hypolite v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-01-21· cited 30×
• H&H Avionics, Inc. v. Virgin Islands Port Authority
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-12-14· cited 30×
• Terrell ex rel. L.D v. Coral World
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2011-07-20· cited 25×
• In re Rogers
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-02-27· cited 21×
• People v. Todmann
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2010-02-19· cited 18×
• People v. Clarke
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2011-04-12· cited 17×
• Tindell v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-01-05· cited 15×
• People v. Titre
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-11-25· cited 10×
• Todmann v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-10-22· cited 9×
• People v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-08-06· cited 7×
• Tremcorp Holdings, Inc. v. Harris
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2016-09-07· cited 5×
• People v. Powell
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-04-23· cited 3×
• People v. Faulkner
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-08-06· cited 3×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ex Parte United States
  Supreme Court· 1916-12-04· cited 540×
• Arizona v. Manypenny
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-15· cited 451×
• Frederick Leon Dotson v. J.J. Clark, Warden, Memphis Federal Correctional Institution
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-04-04· cited 143×
• Virgin Islands Government Hospitals & Health Facilities Corp. v. Government of the Virgin Islands, Department of Health
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2008-09-16· cited 61×
• United States v. Helen Mae Lane, United States of America v. Honorable Fred Kunzel
  Ninth Circuit· 1960-10-21· cited 49×
• United States v. Terry Wayne Denson, Stephen Orlando and Joseph James Janish, Defendants- in Re United States of America
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-03-30· cited 42×
• United States v. Jose M. Fernandez-Toledo, Lazara E. Rodriguez-Sensat, Carlos S. Lahera- Gonzalez, and Rafael E. Franjul
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-01-03· cited 38×
• United States v. Stokes
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1976-10-21· cited 29×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Jamel Rivera
  Third Circuit· 2003-06-18· cited 27×
• United States v. Raphael Dwight Hundley
  Second Circuit· 1988-08-24· cited 24×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John Byrnes EVANS, Defendant-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-08-16· cited 24×
• Brown v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2008-01-28· cited 13×
• People v. George
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2008-06-18· cited 10×