Sheldon v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that it is the grand jury’s duty to ensure there is sufficient evidence for the case to be put in front of a trial jury for a determination of guilt or innocence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. McDonald
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1994-04-12· cited 52×
• Henry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1993-10-22· cited 28×
• People v. Michael M.
  New York Supreme Court· 1994-09-16· cited 25×
• Steve v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1994-06-10· cited 15×
• Cathey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2002-12-13· cited 14×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-01-30· cited 11×
• Nunn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1993-01-22· cited 9×
• State v. Ladd
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-01-16· cited 9×
• Grandstaff v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2007-11-30· cited 6×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2007-05-04· cited 5×
• State v. Cameron
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2005-06-03· cited 4×
• State v. Case
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1996-12-13· cited 3×
• Davidson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1999-03-19· cited 3×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2009-07-17· cited 3×
• State of Alaska v. Thomas A. Mayfield
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2019-05-03· cited 2×
• Rae v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2014-11-21· cited 1×
• Chad Alan Zurlo v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2022-02-18
• Martin C. Smith v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2024-04-26
• Gregory Marino v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2025-08-22

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• People v. Jennings
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-12-18· cited 603×
• Cassell v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1950-04-24· cited 516×
• Lorenson v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1950-04-04· cited 183×
• Coleman v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-07-14· cited 170×
• Dorman v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-01-23· cited 135×
• Frink v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-06-29· cited 121×
• Taggard v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-08-11· cited 63×
• Tookak v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-07-30· cited 61×
• Beavers v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-12-30· cited 52×
• Merrill v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1967-02-14· cited 51×
• Preston v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-08-08· cited 44×
• Beck v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1965-12-20· cited 44×
• State v. Gieffels
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-08-27· cited 43×
• Van Hatten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-07-15· cited 38×
• Brower v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-11-28· cited 30×
• Adams v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-08-09· cited 27×
• Hohman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-09-30· cited 26×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1989-02-03· cited 25×
• Bodine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1987-05-29· cited 19×