State v. Wiley’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Wilson v. Attaway (1985), Favors v. State (1975)
8 federal appellate · 33 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 Pass v. State · 131 Ga. App. 511 - Wiley 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permits the offender complete rehabilitation without the stigma of a felony conviction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Upon a verdict or plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere b[ut] before an adjudication of guilt, the court may, in the case of a defendant who has not been previously convicted of a felony, without entering a judgment of guilt and with the consent of the defendant, defer further proceeding and place the defendant on probation as provided by the Statewide Probation Act [§§ 27-2702 through 27-2726.1]. Upon violation of the terms of probation, or upon a conviction for another crime, the court may enter an adjudication of guilt and proceed as otherwise provided. No person may avail himself of the provisions of this law [§§ 27-2727 through 27-2732] on more than one occasion."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“enter an adjudication of guilt and proceed as otherwise provided.”
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.