481 U.S. 1059
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 18, 1987
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1987-05-18
Relies on Commonwealth v. Christy · Clark v. State · Dobbs v. Kemp
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1987-05-18
Cited by 142 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2004 · most notably McQueen v. Scroggy (1996), Twin Peaks Productions, Inc. v. Publications International, Ltd. (1993)
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 46 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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¶1Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;
¶2Sup. Ct. Pa.;
¶3Sup. Ct. Fla.;
¶4C. A. 11th Cir.;
¶5Sup. Ct. Ky.; and
¶6Sup..Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 86-6193, 717 S. W. 2d 910; No. 86-*10606374, 511 Pa. 490, 515 A. 2d 832; No. 86-6599, 497 So. 2d 1169; No. 86-6603, 790 F. 2d 1499 and 809 F. 2d 750; No. 86-6618, 721 S. W. 2d 694; No. 86-6648, 497 So. 2d 1185.