456 U.S. 910
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 29, 1982
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1982-03-29
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Vanderbilt v. State · 407 So. 2d 198 - Christopher v. State
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1982-03-29
Cited by 205 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2003 · most notably Evitts v. Lucey (1985), Sharp v. State (1986)
72 federal appellate · 1 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
View the full empirical analysis of this case →
¶1Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and
¶2Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-6158, 629 S. W. 2d 709; No. 81-6172, 407 So. 2d 198.
¶3dissenting.
¶4Adhering 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.