Wiley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably 860 So. 2d 704 - Howell v. State (2003), 790 So. 2d 773 - Conley v. State (2001)
1 federal appellate · 52 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 Strickland v. Washington · Maynard v. Cartwright · Clemons v. Mississippi · Saffle v. Parks · California v. Brown
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each case must be decided on its own peculiar facts. If there is evidence from which it may be reasonably inferred that a substantial reason for the killing was to conceal the identity of the killer or killers or to `cover their tracks' so as to avoid apprehension and eventual arrest by authorities, then it is proper for the court to allow the jury to consider this aggravating circumstance.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. King v. State · Grayson v. State“as used in this section shall be defined and limited to those cases where the legal foundation upon which the claim for relief is based could not have been discovered with reasonable diligence at the time of trial or direct appeal. (5) The term”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the State is allowed to rebut mitigating evidence through cross-examination, introduction of rebuttal evidence or by argument.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. State · Taggart 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.