WJH v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2025
24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kent v. United States · Thompson v. Oklahoma · United States v. Criden · Voss v. Ralston · Allen v. Allen
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 14-6-246. Sanction levels. (a) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, when a child is adjudicated as a delinquent the juvenile court may, in a disposition hearing, assign the child one (1) of the following sanction levels according to the child's conduct: (i) For a misdemeanor punishable under the Wyoming Criminal Code by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, the sanction level is one; (ii) For a misdemeanor punishable under the Wyoming Criminal Code by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, the sanction level is two; (iii) For a felony, other than a violent felony as defined by W.S. 6-1-104(a)(xii), the sanction level is three; (iv) For a violent felony as defined by W.S. 6-1-104(a)(xii), other than a felony punishable by life, life without parole or death, the sanction level is four; (v) For a felony punishable under the Wyoming Criminal Code by life, life without parole or death, the sanction level is five. * * * * § 14-6-247. Sanctions common to all levels. (a) For a child at any sanction level, the juvenile court may: * * * * (viii) Order the child to be examined or treated by a physician, surgeon, psychiatrist or psychologist or to obtain other specialized treatment, care, counseling or training, and place the child in a hospital or medical facility, youth camp, school or other suitable facility for treatment[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e are at liberty to decide a case upon any point which in our opinion the ends of justice require.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“construe statutes in a manner which renders any portion meaningless or produces absurd results.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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