Wiley III v. Rayl’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 679 · 1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Robison v. Maynard (1987), Pittsburg Midway Coal Mining Company v. Yazzie D J C (1990)
16 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Sandstrom v. Montana · Francis v. Franklin · Connecticut v. Johnson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘There is the presumption that a person intends all of the natural and probable consequences of his voluntary acts. This presumption is overcome if you are persuaded by the evidence that the contrary is true.’ ” 767 F.2d at 681 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Young · State v. Mason“cannot read the challenged instruction in isolation, but must consider the instruction as a whole in determining whether a reasonable juror would have understood the court to have shifted the burden of persuasion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is a presumption that a person intends all the natural and probable consequences of his voluntary acts. This presumption is overcome if you are persuaded by the evidence that the contrary is true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Myrick v. Maschner
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.