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446 U.S. 961

Davis v. Georgia

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1980-05-27

Relies on Brooks v. State · Davis v. State · Collins v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1980-05-27

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2013 · most notably Brooks v. Kemp (1985), Williams v. State (1983)

14 federal appellate · 33 state decisions

3801980199020002010decided

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. Motions of petitioners for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and cer-tiorari granted. Judgments vacated insofar as they leave undisturbed the death penalties imposed, and cases remanded for further consideration in light of Godfrey v. Georgia, ante, *962p. 420. Reported below: No. 78-6891, 242 Ga. 901, 252 S. E. 2d 443; No. 79-5032, 243 Ga. 73, 252 S. E. 2d 620; No. 79-5188, 243 Ga. 291, 253 S. E. 2d 729; No. 79-5567, 243 Ga. 710, 257 S. E. 2d 192; No. 79-5904, 244 Ga. 145, 259 S. E. 2d 81; No. 79-6330, 244 Ga. 574, 261 S. E. 2d 379.

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