Wiley v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mental retardation is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills. This disability originates before age 18.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In Mississippi, [an] IQ of 75 is the ‘cutoff score’ for assessing subaverage intellectual functioning for purposes of diagnosing mental retardation.”). 19 . We do not hold, as one dissent charges,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hill v. Humphrey“The confidence interval refers to a percentage corresponding to [a] degree of confidence that an interval around the obtained IQ score contains the true IQ score.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.