456 U.S. 938
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 19, 1982
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1982-04-19
Relies on Bassett v. Commonwealth · White v. State · State v. Thompson
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1982-04-19
Cited by 121 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2009 · most notably Francis v. Franklin (1985), Stockton v. Commonwealth (1984)
11 federal appellate · 99 state decisions — followed in 10 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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¶1Sup. Ct. Ga.;
¶2Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;
¶3Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County;
¶4Sup. Ct. S. C.;
¶5Sup. Ct. Ark.; and
¶6Sup. Ct. Va. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-6081, 248 Ga. 325, 282 S. E. 2d 629; No. 81-6156, 629 S. W. 2d 701; No. 81-6235, 278 S. C. 1, 292 S. E. 2d 581; No. 81-6245, 274 Ark. 126, 623 S. W. 2d 180; No. 81-6353, 222 Va. 844, 284 S. E. 2d 844.