Cooper v. Florida

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 16, 1977

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1977-05-16

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1977-05-16

How this case has been cited

Cited by 231 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Brewer v. Williams (1977), Jones v. Rath Packing Co. (1977)

52 federal appellate · 7 district · 114 state decisions — followed in 23 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.

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¶1Sup. Ct. Fla. 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).