Schafer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2023
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 Simpson v. United States · Pennell v. City of San Jose · 9 Cal. 3d 517 - Kirkpatrick v. James M. · Gayler v. State · Burton 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The ultimate question in this appeal is whether the Wyoming Legislature intended attempted aggravated assault to be a criminal offense. The answer to the question, in this Court's estimation, is that the Legislature did not so intend, The general attempt statute, Wyo. Stat, Ann. § 6-L-.801 (LexisNexis 2007), is applicable to all crimes unless the specific criminal statute, in this case the aggravated assault and battery statute, also relates to attempts. This Court has generally described the reach of the general attempt statute .as follows: , . [The general attempt statute is operative when applied to statutes where the legislature has not already spoken; and where .the legislature has enacted a special statute making the attempt a crime, the special statute will prevail, This construction gives effect to both statutes and a policy that ambiguity concerning the application of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 6-2-5022. Aggravated assault and battery; penalty. (a) A person is guilty of aggravated assault and battery if he: [[Image here]] (@) Threatens to use a drawn deadly weapon on another unless reasonably necessary in defense of his person, property or abode or to prevent serious bodily injury to another(.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is not possible to attempt to make an actual threat of physical injury while employing a deadly weapon-rather, until the threat is actually made, there is no crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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