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484 So. 2d 339 - Wiley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

118
cited by 118 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
May 2017
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 98 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 118 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Clemons v. Mississippi (1990), Foster v. State (1994)

2 federal appellate · 98 state decisions

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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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt

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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The majority rule of this Court is that the jurors are required to find the existence of each aggravating circumstance beyond a reasonable doubt, but the jury is not required to find that the aggravating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt outweigh the mitigating circumstances following the statute.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Taylor v. State · Brown v. State
  2. “[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.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. State v. Rose · State v. Bey
  3. “[t]he capital offense was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 517 So. 2d 1295 - Jones v. State · 533 So. 2d 1078 - Nixon v. State

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.