Sonnier v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “once a sentence has been meaningfully imposed, it may not, at a later time, be increased”
• once sentence has been meaningfully imposed, double jeopardy prohibits the increase of the sentence at a later time
• sentence increased from 5 years to 10 years
• sentence increased from 5 years to 10 years
• sentence modified about three hours later

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Carlson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-02-16· cited 63×
• Pascu v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-05-05· cited 43×
• Shagloak v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-08-11· cited 42×
• Gilbert v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-08-03· cited 39×
• Huff v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-09-16· cited 24×
• Nix v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1981-03-05· cited 23×
• State v. Price
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-03-14· cited 23×
• State v. LaPorte
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-11-18· cited 21×
• Reyes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1999-04-30· cited 21×
• State v. Rogers
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2001-05-14· cited 21×
• Forster v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2010-07-30· cited 18×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-04-13· cited 16×
• Lemon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-10-29· cited 15×
• Merry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-03-25· cited 11×
• Nelson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-01-09· cited 10×
• DeMario v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1997-02-24· cited 10×
• Figueroa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-10-19· cited 10×
• Dodge v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1994-07-08· cited 10×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1992-12-04· cited 9×
• Tritt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1981-03-26· cited 8×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Benton v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 4,063×
• Green v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 3,075×
• Whitton v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-12-23· cited 222×
• People v. Thomas
  California Supreme Court· 1959-07-24· cited 113×
• Spriggs v. State Board of Law Examiners
  Supreme Court· 1945-06-18· cited 92×
• Robert Eugene Kennedy v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1964-04-01· cited 82×
• Speidel v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-10-21· cited 81×
• DeSacia v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-05-15· cited 81×
• United States v. Frank Sacco
  Second Circuit· 1966-10-19· cited 76×
• George Edward Duggins v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1957-01-21· cited 74×
• Oxman v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1945-04-23· cited 35×
• Walton v. United States (Two Cases)
  D.C. Circuit· 1953-01-15· cited 27×
• Cisson v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1930-01-14· cited 22×