STATE OF HAWAII, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GARY DAVID WETZEL, Defendant-Appellant

1989-12-11 · Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals · United States

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6What it rests on

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0Departed from

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19921 judgments13 years silent20051 judgments

2 judgments have relied on it, across 1992–2005

first 1992 · last 2005 · busiest 1992 (1 judgments)

2005-01-12The STATE of Texas v. Matthew Reid MECHLER, AppelleeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas×2 1992-03-19Haas v. StateSupreme Court of Florida

What it rests on

1989-06-06Kenneth Palestine Davis v. Commonwealth of VirginiaCourt of Appeals of Virginia 1988-01-06Mosley v. the StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia 1987-06-30State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. John E. Tischio, Defendant-AppellantSupreme Court of New Jersey 1986-05-01STATE of Idaho, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Mary Lou KNOLL, Defendant-AppellantIdaho Court of Appeals 1982-03-25State of Vermont v. David RollinsSupreme Court of Vermont 1981-09-10Patrick Joseph DOYLE, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, AppelleeCourt of Appeals of Alaska

11 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

Departed from

No judgment recorded a departure from this one.

Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

not characterised

Most citations carry no word at all. The Court does not always say what it is doing when it cites one of its own judgments, and where it stayed silent nothing is inferred here.