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425 U.S. 901

Levin v. Gulotta

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 29, 1976

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1976-03-29

Doe v. Commonwealth's Attorney of Richmond, 425 U.S. 901 (1976), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which gave summary affirmation of a lower court ruling which upheld the U.S. state of Virginia's ban on homosexual sodomy.

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Relies on Mildner v. Gulotta

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1976-03-29

How this case has been cited

Cited by 168 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Carey v. Population Services International (1977), United States v. Miller (1976)

60 federal appellate · 8 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 25 states

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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.

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¶1Affirmed on appeal from D. C. E. D. N. Y.

¶2Reported below: 405 F. Supp. 182.

Mr. Justice Marshall and Mr. Justice Powell would postpone consideration of question of jurisdiction to hearing of cases on the merits.
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