434 U.S. 935
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 31, 1977
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1977-10-31
Relies on Burns v. State · Pryor v. State · Herron v. Lackey
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1977-10-31
Cited by 92 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2005 · most notably Wainwright v. Witt (1985), Adams v. Texas (1980)
8 federal appellate · 72 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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¶1Sup. Ct. Fla.;
¶2Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;
¶3Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and
¶4Sup. Ct. Ga. Certio-rari denied. Reported below: No. 77-5026, 342 So. 2d 497; No. 77-5305, 556 S. W. 2d 270; No. 77-5355, 556 S. W. 2d 246 ; No. 77-5464, 238 Ga. 698, 234 S. E. 2d 918.