¶1Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
¶2Denied.
107 S. Ct. 318
Decided October 20, 1986
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
“The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has held that a prosecutor's comments”
quoted by 1 later decision, including Ex Parte McWilliams
Cited together with Wrenn v. Ohio Department of Mental Health · Johnson v. Transportation Agency · Harcon Barge Co. v. D & G Boat Rentals, Inc.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1986-10-20
Cited by 1,314 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch (1989), United States v. Salerno (1987)
680 federal appellate · 64 district · 253 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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.