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483 U.S. 1056

Franklin v. Lynaugh

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided September 30, 1987

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1987-09-30

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Decided 1987-09-30

How this case has been cited

Cited by 84 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2004 · most notably Rankin v. McPherson (1987), Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon (1987)

8 federal appellate · 9 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 17 states

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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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¶1C. A. 5th Cir. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice White, and by him referred to the Court, is granted pending the disposition by this Court of the petition for writ of certiorari. Should the petition for writ of certiorari be denied, this stay terminates automatically. In the event the petition for *1057writ of certiorari is granted, this stay shall continue pending the sending down of the judgment of this Court.

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