454 U.S. 882 - Johnson v. Florida

How this case has been cited

Cited by 460 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Pulley v. Harris (1984), Spaziano v. Florida (1984)

65 federal appellate · 4 district · 339 state decisions — followed in 21 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. Ariz.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶4Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

¶5Sup. Ct. Cal.;

¶6Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶7Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶8Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶9Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶10Sup. Ct. Tenn.;

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¶12Sup. Ct. Ga.;

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¶14Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County;

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¶16Sup. Ct. Neb.;

¶17Sup. Ct. Neb.;

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¶19Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 80-6610, 393 So. 2d 1069; No. 80-6614, 128 Ariz. 150, 624 P. 2d 828; No. 80-6671, 247 Ga. 119, 274 S. E. 2d 549; No. 80-6702, 28 Cal. 3d 935, 623 P. 2d 240; No. 80-6749, 247 Ga. 172, 274 S. E. 2d 317; No. 80-6786, 247 Ga. 219, 275 S. E. 2d 29; No. 80-6839, 247 Ga. 298, 275 S. E. 2d 52; No. 80-6844, 247 Ga. 276, 276 S. E. 2d 242; Nos. 80-6864 and 81-5062, 615 S. W. 2d 142; No. 80-6877, 247 Ga. 316, 276 S. E. 2d 15; No. 80-6949, 398 So. 2d 439; No. 81-5046, 397 So. 2d 277; No. 81-5048, 208 Neb. 568, 304 N. W. 2d 663; No. 81-5056, 208 Neb. 320, 303 N. W. 2d 490; No. 81-5157, 208 Neb. 639, 305 N. W. 2d 354; No. 81-5158, 397 So. 2d 648.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶20dissenting.

¶21Adhering 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.