449 U.S. 891 - Holtan v. Nebraska

How this case has been cited

Cited by 212 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably McCleskey v. Zant (1991), McCleskey v. Kemp (1987)

67 federal appellate · 2 district · 112 state decisions — followed in 20 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. Neb.;

¶2Sup. Ct. Tenn.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶4Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶5Sup. Ct. Mont.;

¶6Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶7Sup. Ct. Ariz.;

¶8Sup. Ct. Mont.;

¶9Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶10Sup. Ct. La.;

¶11Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶12Sup. Ct. Utah;

¶13Sup. Ct. Utah;

¶14Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

¶15Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County; and

¶16Sup. Ct. Neb. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 79-6570, 205 Neb. 314, 287 N. W. 2d 671; No. 79-6580, 593 S. W. 2d 267; No. 79-6585, 245 Ga. 583, 266 S. E. 2d 194; No. 79-6636, - Mont. -, 606 P. 2d 1343; No. 79-6706, 245 Ga. 368, 265 S. E. 2d 22; No. 79-6752, 120 Ariz. 158, 584 P. 2d 1149, and *892124 Ariz. 526, 606 P. 2d 16; No. 79-6809, 245 Ga. 68, 263 S. E. 2d 109; No. 79-6826, 379 So. 2d 240; No. 79-6830, 245 Ga. 108, 263 S. E. 2d 146; No. 79-6876, 607 P. 2d 812; No. 79-6887, 607 P. 2d 816; No. 80-5042, 592 S. W. 2d 949; No. 80-5113, 205 Neb. 56, 287 N. W. 2d 18.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶17dissenting.

¶18Adhering 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.