444 U.S. 885 - LeDuc v. Florida

How this case has been cited

Cited by 289 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Rock v. Arkansas (1987), Godfrey v. Georgia (1980)

65 federal appellate · 1 district · 184 state decisions — followed in 25 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.

¶1Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶2Sup. Ct. Miss.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶4Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

¶5Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶6Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶7Sup. Ct. Ga.;

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¶12Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 78-6567, 365 So. 2d 149; No. 78-6577, 365 So. 2d 1198; No. 78-6637, see 328 So. 2d 430; No. 78-6650, 576 S. W. 2d 51; No. 78-6695, 243 Ga. 131, 252 S. E. 2d 625; No. 78-6740, 365 So. 2d 704; No. 78-6897, 243 Ga. 120, 252 S. E. 2d 609; No. 79-5059, 366 So. 2d 752; No. 79-5075, 366 So. 2d 745; No. 79-5115, 243 Ga. 532, 255 S. E. 2d 1; No. 79-5143, 243 Ga. 185, 253 S. E. 2d 70; No. 79-5169, 369 So. 2d 928.

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall,

¶13dissenting.

¶14Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.