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← 449 U.S. 976 - Downs v. Florida

Downs v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

215
cited by 215 later decisions
8
states following
August 2017
most recently cited

55 federal appellate · 39 district · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 215 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Harsco Corp. v. Zlotnicki (1985), Rousseau v. State (1993)

55 federal appellate · 39 district · 29 state decisions

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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.

Relationships

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Davis v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.