Wiley v. Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2009 · most notably Clemons v. Mississippi (1990), Sawyer v. Smith (1990)
14 federal appellate · 64 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Woodson v. North Carolina · Zant v. Stephens
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the end, the fallacy of our rule is its failure to recognize that murders are aggravated by a defendant's conduct, not by statutory language.... A single legally indivisible act of the defendant may rationally aggravate a murder but once.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Rose · State v. Di Frisco
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.