Perry v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that courts should not pass on a constitutional issue unless it is essential to the decision of a case
• declaring that a court should not pass on a constitutional issue unless the determination of that issue is essential to the court's decision of the case
• do not need to reach and therefore decline to reach statutory issue, since answer might lead to constitutional issue; should not pass on constitutional issue unless determination essential to decision of case
• do not need to reach and therefore decline to reach statutory issue, since answer might lead to constitutional issue; should not pass on constitutional issue unless determination essential to decision of case
• should not pass on constitutional issue unless determination essential to decision of case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Taggard v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-08-11· cited 63×
• McCracken v. Corey
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-05-30· cited 43×
• Gilmore v. Alaska Workers' Compensation Board
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1994-10-14· cited 32×
• Mead v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-10-15· cited 29×
• State v. Patterson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1987-07-31· cited 25×
• City of National City v. Wiener
  California Supreme Court· 1992-10-29· cited 20×
• Alaska Trademark Shellfish, LLC v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2004-04-16· cited 18×
• State v. Roberts
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2000-03-10· cited 10×
• Crawford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2004-10-22· cited 9×
• Price v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-07-09· cited 8×
• North West Cruiseship Ass'n of Alaska v. State, Office of Lieutenant Governor, Division of Elections
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2006-10-13· cited 5×
• Hertz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2000-09-15· cited 4×
• Crawford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2017-09-08· cited 4×
• Terrell v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2025-07-10
• Terrell v. United States (Amended Opinion)
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2026-01-15

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Townsend v. Sain
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 4,485×
• Sanders v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-29· cited 2,713×
• Salinger v. Loisel
  Supreme Court· 1924-05-26· cited 380×
• Miller v. Mun. Court of L. A.
  California Supreme Court· 1943-09-30· cited 114×
• State v. Heitz
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1951-11-20· cited 27×
• Barber v. Gladden
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1958-12-03· cited 20×
• County of Maricopa v. Anderson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1957-01-15· cited 18×
• Burleigh v. Turner
  Utah Supreme Court· 1964-01-23· cited 14×