449 So. 2d 756 - Wiley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010 · most notably Caldwell v. Mississippi (1985), Clemons v. Mississippi (1990)
2 federal appellate · 58 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · California v. Ramos · 208 So. 2d 886 - Carr v. State · Hill 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any argument by the state which distorts or minimizes this solemn obligation and responsibility of the jury is serious error. . . . [I]n a death penalty case a jury should never be given false comfort that any decision they make will, or can be, corrected”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It has been argued that the prosecutor's comments in the instant case were invited when defense counsel argued that the jury should vote to sentence Wiley to "spend the rest of his life in prison in Parchman, Mississippi." This notion is meritless. The only statutory alternative to imposition of the death sentence is life imprisonment. Miss. Code Ann. § 99-19-101 (Supp. 1983). What twisted bit of logic it would be for us to hold that the defense counsel's sole argument to save his client's life is an invitation to error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This holding was a cautious one in that it addressed only the commutation issue and, more importantly, expressly reserved to the individual states the right to determine what post-sentencing matters are properly placed before a jury. Therefore, the Ramos decision provides us no guidance other than pointing to the direction of the forest; we are free to choose our own path.”
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.