479 U.S. 1101 - Wright v. Illinois

How this case has been cited

Cited by 229 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably 122 Ill. 2d 221 - People v. Gacho (1988), 125 Ill. 2d 50 - People v. Evans (1988)

26 federal appellate · 1 district · 184 state decisions — followed in 15 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. Ill.;

¶2Sup. Ct. Pa.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Ala.;

¶4Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶5Sup. Ct. Ill.;

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¶8Sup. Ct. Nev.;

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¶10Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶11Sup. Ct. Ohio;

¶12Sup. Ct. Va.;

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¶15Sup. Ct. Tenn.;

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¶17Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-6783, 111 Ill. 2d 128, 490 N. E. 2d 640; No. 85-7008, 509 Pa. 67, 501 A. 2d 200; No. 85-7016, 486 So. 2d 1321; No. 85-7232, 255 Ga. 616, 340 S. E. 2d 891; No. 86-5207, 112 Ill. 2d 111, 492 N. E. 2d 1303; No. 86-5434, 112 Ill. 2d 324, 493 N. E. 2d 579; No. 86-5599, 112 Ill. 2d 517, 494 N. E. 2d 475; No. 86-5801, 102 Nev. 377, 724 P. 2d 734; No. 86-5906, 113 Ill. 2d 83, 497 N. E. 2d 995; No. 86-5958, 492 So. 2d 1059; No. 86-5994, 25 Ohio St. 3d 144, 495 N. E. 2d 407; No. 86-6017, 289 Ark. 387, 713 S. W. 2d 233; No. 86-6026, 494 So. 2d 745; No. 86-6033, 718 S. W. 2d 256; No. 86-6092, 494 So. 2d 969; No. 86-6194, 495 So. 2d 154.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶18dissenting.

¶19Adhering 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.