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← 2002 WY 74 - Weidt v. State

Weidt v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 2013
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on American Grain Trimmers, Inc. v. Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · State v. Whitfield · Chapman v. State · Hodges v. State · Curl v. State

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] variance is fatal where the instruction submits a new and distinct offense to the jury. Instructing on one form of the offense where the information charges another form of the same offense is not reversible eiTor absent a showing that the variance between the information and the instruction is material and prejudicial. Variances are material where they affect whether the defendant received adequate notice of the charges against him. Variances are prejudicial where they affect the defendant’s ability to defend the charge against him.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “COMES NOW the State of Wyoming ... and hereby informs the Court and gives the Court to understand that [Mr. Craft],”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.