475 U.S. 1098 - Davis v. Oklahoma

How this case has been cited

Cited by 231 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably United States v. Pungitore (1990), State v. Brown (1995)

64 federal appellate · 3 district · 129 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.

¶1Ct. Crim. App. Okla.;

¶2Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Mo.;

¶4Sup. Ct. Ind.;

¶5Sup. Ct. Mo.;

¶6Sup. Ct. Miss.;

¶7Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶8Sup. Ct. Miss.; and

¶9Sup. Ct. S. C. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-5053, 470 So. 2d 697; No. 85-5553, 693 S. W. 2d 79; No. 85-5651, 478 N. E. 2d *10991214; No. 85-5833, 694 S. W. 2d 729; No. 85-6168, 478 So. 2d 1043; No. 85-6228, 476 So. 2d 1253; No. 85-6342, 479 So. 2d 710.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶10dissenting.

¶11Adhering 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.