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511 U.S. 1012

Hoffman v. Idaho

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 28, 1994

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1994-03-28

Relies on Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections v. Duest

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Decided 1994-03-28

How this case has been cited

Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Gribble (1997), Commonwealth v. Jones (1996)

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 87 state decisions

450199420002010decided

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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Justice Blackmun,

¶1dissenting.

¶2Adhering to my view that the death penalty cannot be imposed fairly within the constraints of our Constitution, see my dissent in Callins v. Collins, 510 U. S. 1141, 1143 (1994), I would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.

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