Cavaness v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A] personal affront of such serious 15 character as to be reasonably calculated to provoke a dangerous assault from another is generally deemed sufficient to authorize a jury to deny the ordinary right of self-defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1978-07-14· cited 104×
• Gayler v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1998-04-24· cited 79×
• Oldham v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1975-04-23· cited 71×
• Garcia v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1983-08-11· cited 40×
• Bennett v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1963-01-11· cited 39×
• Jeschke v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1982-04-06· cited 39×
• Elmer v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1969-12-30· cited 35×
• Barela v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1990-02-13· cited 33×
• Mullin v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1973-01-24· cited 21×
• Widdison v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2018-02-16· cited 9×
• Marty May Smith v. The State of Wyoming
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2021-02-12· cited 6×