State v. Dutch Harbor Seafoods, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that strict liability commercial fishing violations are “minor criminal offenses in substance and are to be enforced and adjudicated using criminal procedures,” even though there is no right to a jury trial or to court-appointed counsel
• stating that “the term ‘quasi-criminal’ encompasses minor offenses which are criminal rather than civil in nature but do not meet the Baker test for the right to jury trial”
• addressing strict liability violations including possession of fish taken by an unregistered vessel
• $3000-$6000 fine does not connote criminality in context of highly regulated, multi-million dollar fishing industry

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. James Denelsbeck(075170)
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2016-05-12· cited 13×
• State v. Euteneier
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2001-09-14· cited 3×
• State of Alaska v. Falealo Manuele Pulusila
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2020-07-02· cited 3×
• Deaver v. Auction Block Co.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2005-02-25· cited 1×
• State of Alaska v. Kai Davidson Meyers
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2020-12-18· cited 1×
• Samples v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2007-06-29· cited 1×
• Dorene Lorenz v. City & Borough of Juneau
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2025-08-01

Cites

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

• Duncan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 3,740×
• Austin v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 1,908×
• Tull v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-28· cited 1,016×
• United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 720×
• Cheff v. Schnackenberg
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 438×
• Blanton v. City of North Las Vegas
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-06· cited 382×
• Muniz v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-25· cited 321×
• Brown v. Multnomah County District Court
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1977-10-12· cited 214×
• Baker v. City of Fairbanks
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-06-05· cited 211×
• State v. O'Neill Investigations, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-03-28· cited 180×
• United States v. Nachtigal
  Supreme Court· 1993-02-22· cited 137×
• United States v. Chandler
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-09-27· cited 91×
• United States v. One 1976 Mercedes Benz 280S, Serial No. 11602012072193
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-03-25· cited 91×
• Swanner v. Anchorage Equal Rights Commission
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1994-05-13· cited 61×
• Millman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1992-11-13· cited 59×
• Sims v. Collection Division of the Utah State Tax Commission
  Utah Supreme Court· 1992-10-22· cited 55×
• Alexander v. City of Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-11-19· cited 51×
• State v. Anton
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1983-07-14· cited 41×
• F/V AMERICAN EAGLE v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-11-21· cited 37×
• State v. Bennion
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1986-12-18· cited 34×