White v. Texas

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 25, 1977

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1977-04-25

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1977-04-25

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1998 · most notably Nolde Bros., Inc. v. Local No. 358, Bakery & Confectionery Workers Union (1977), Vanderbilt v. State (1981)

4 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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.

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¶1Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied.

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall would grant certiorari and vacate judgment insofar as it leaves undisturbed the sentence of death.

¶2See Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227 (1976) (Brennan, J., dissenting) ; id., at 231 (Marshall, J., dissenting).