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429 U.S. 932

Spencer v. Georgia

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 1, 1976

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1976-11-01

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1976-11-01

How this case has been cited

Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State v. Sage (1987), State v. Young (1985)

10 federal appellate · 76 state decisions

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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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¶1Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied. See Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227 (1976) (Brennan, J., dissenting); id., at 231 (Marshall, J., dissenting).

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall would grant certiorari and vacate judgments insofar as they leave undisturbed the sentence of death.
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