¶1Sup. Ct. Ga.;
¶2Sup. Ct. Ariz.; and
¶3Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 80-5561, 245 Ga. 856, 268 S. E. 2d 339; No. 80-5632, 126 Ariz. 428, 616 P. 2d 888; No. 80-5645, 387 So. 2d 922.
449 U.S. 1067
Hance v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 15, 1980
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1980-12-15
Relies on Witt v. State · State v. Clark · Hance v. State
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1980-12-15
How this case has been cited
Cited by 251 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably Wainwright v. Witt (1985), Walton v. Arizona (1990)
35 federal appellate · 190 state decisions — followed in 11 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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