Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• \[A] court is obliged to avoid construing statutes in a way that leads to patently absurd results or to defeat of the obvious legislative purpose behind the statute.\
• “[A] court is obliged to avoid construing statutes in a way that leads to patently absurd results or to defeat of the obvious legislative purpose behind the statute.”
• police had probable cause to make a traffic stop because the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the district court’s ruling, established that the driver’s taillight was emitting at least some white light in violation of 13 AAC 04.145(e)
• similar statute requires that taillights emit only red light

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Arizona v. Kyle Andrew Stoll
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2016-05-23· cited 9×
• v McBride
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2020-07-23· cited 3×
• LeFever v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1994-07-22· cited 2×
• Alex Trenton Beltz v. State of Alaska, State of Alaska v. Lesli Renee Richardson
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2024-06-07· cited 2×
• Bessette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2006-10-06· cited 1×
• Tanner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2018-12-14· cited 1×
• Penetac v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2019-01-11· cited 1×
• Don L. Baker v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2023-10-20
• Cody Dylan Riggs v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2025-10-03

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dixson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 129×
• Wylie v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1990-08-10· cited 52×
• Belarde v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1981-10-15· cited 33×
• Sherman v. Holiday Construction Company
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1967-12-07· cited 28×
• Cassell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-05-28· cited 28×