111 SCT 1 - Derrick v. Collins

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2014

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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.

¶1Application for stay of execution of sentence of death and certificate of probable cause, presented to Justice White, and by him referred to the Court, denied.

Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens would grant the application.Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶2dissenting.

¶3Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth *1043and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant the application for stay of execution in order to give the applicant time to file a petition for writ of certiorari and would grant the petition and vacate the death sentence in this case.