Bush v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2026
16 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 Cross v. Berg Lumber Company · Meerscheidt v. State · O'S Gold Seed Co. v. United Agri-Products Financial Services, Inc. · Kirby Building Systems v. Mineral Explorations Co. · Meredith GMC, Inc. v. Garner
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 7-9-1011. Definitions. (a) As used in this chapter: [[Image here]] (iii) "Pecuniary damage" means all damages which a victim could recover against the defendant in a civil action arising out of the same facts or event,. ... (iv) "Restitution" means full or partial payment of pecuniary damage to a vietim; (v) "Victim" means a person who has suffered pecuniary damage as a result of a defendant's criminal activities. § 7-9-1022. Order to pay upon convietion. In addition to any other punishment pre-seribed by law the court shall, upon convietion for any misdemeanor or felony, order a defendant to pay restitution to each vie-tim as determined under W.S. 7-9-108 ... unless the court specifically finds that the defendant has no ability to pay and that no reasonable probability exists that the defendant will have an ability to pay. § 7-9-103. Determination of amount owed; execution. (a) As part of the sentencing process including deferred prosecutions under W.S. 7-13-301, in any misdemeanor or felony case, the prosecuting attorney shall present to the court any claim for restitution submitted by any victim. (b) In every case in which a claim for restitution is submitted, the court shall fix a reasonable amount as restitution owed to each victim for actual pecuniary damage resulting from the defendant's criminal activity, and shall include its determination of the pecuniary damage as a special finding in the judgment of conviction or in the order placing the defendant on probation u”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Guinard v. State“The trial court additionally ordered that Bush's obligation be joint and several with Sparby's ordered restitution to assure that the victim would not receive a windfall.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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