State v. Garrison

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the third prong of the necessity defense requires consideration of the reasonably foreseeable harm that could result from the unlawful conduct, not just the actual harm that did or did not result
• \A defendant is entitled to a jury instruction on the necessity defense if [they] present 'some evidence' in support of that defense.\
• “[T]he defendant will be entitled to an instruction on the defense if it is at least sufficient to permit a reasonable juror to find that each element of the defense has been satisfied.”
• explaining the elements of the necessity defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Marshall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2008-12-24· cited 5×
• Celesty Noel Farmer v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2019-08-30· cited 4×
• Clinton R. Strong v. State of Alaska, Tuie Strong v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2022-04-01· cited 3×
• Frankson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2012-08-17· cited 2×
• Marshall v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2010-08-20· cited 1×
• Greenwood v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2010-08-20· cited 1×
• SCHAREN v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2011-03-18
• Rusty J. Redding v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2019-11-15
• State of Missouri v. Jason Michael Hurst
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2023-03-21

Cites

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

• Cleveland v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-07-24· cited 70×
• Christie v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-06-09· cited 68×
• United States v. Schoon
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-07-29· cited 49×
• Wells v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-09-07· cited 41×
• Paul v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-11-19· cited 34×
• Nelson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-07-20· cited 32×
• Gerlach v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-05-10· cited 27×
• Toomey v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-08-04· cited 27×
• Reeve v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-11-25· cited 17×
• Xi Van Ha v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-03-31· cited 17×
• Seibold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-05-29· cited 16×
• Schnabel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-05-06· cited 16×
• Hamilton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2002-11-22· cited 16×
• Degler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1987-08-21· cited 15×
• Bird v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1990-02-16· cited 15×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-04-26· cited 14×
• Lacey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2002-09-06· cited 12×
• Brown v. Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-04-27· cited 11×
• McGee v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2007-07-27· cited 10×
• Carson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1987-04-24· cited 9×