Supreme Court of the United States, 1982

Knapp v. Cardwell

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided November 29, 1982 · Brennan, Marshall

459 U.S. 1055; 51 U.S.L.W. 3420; 103 S. Ct. 473; 74 L. Ed. 2d 621; 1982 U.S. LEXIS 4581 (United States Reports)

Cases that cite this one

81 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

Dewey E. Coleman v. Henry Risley, Warden, Montana State Prison, and Michael T. Greely, Attorney General for the State of Montana (9th Cir. 1988)
State v. Poland (Ariz. 1985)
Lowry v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (3d Cir. 1983)
Lowry v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (3d Cir. 1983)
State v. Gretzler (Ariz. 1983)
Robert Glen Coe, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Ricky Bell, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/cross-Appellee (6th Cir. 1999)
State v. Mata (Ariz. 1996)
Dewey E. Coleman v. Jack McCormick Warden, Montana State Prison, and Michael T. Greely, Attorney General for the State of Montana (9th Cir. 1989)
Jack Allen Dale v. Glenn Haeberlin, Acting Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary (6th Cir. 1989)
Leonard James McSherry v. Sherman Block, Sheriff (9th Cir. 1989)
John Harvey Adamson v. James G. Ricketts, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections (9th Cir. 1988)
State v. Biegenwald (N.J. 1988)
State v. Biegenwald (N.J. 1987)
United States v. Amir Masoud Motamedi (9th Cir. 1985)
State v. Richmond (Ariz. 1983)
State v. Adamson (Ariz. 1983)
State v. Creech (Idaho 1983)
Cindy Hatfield v. Allenbrooke Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC (Tenn. Ct. App. 2018)
Buehl v. Vaughn (3d Cir. 1999)
Buehl v. Vaughn (3d Cir. 1999)
State v. Mann (Tenn. 1998)
State v. Smiley (Tex. App. 1997)
Monte D. Tucker v. State of California Department of Education James L. Phillips Maria R. Balakshin Terry Proschold (9th Cir. 1996)
Margaret Danmole v. Charles L. Wright (Tenn. Ct. App. 1996)
Lambright v. Lewis (United States District Court for the District of Arizona 1996)

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Opinion of the Court

C. A. 9th Cir.;

Sup. Ct. Tenn.;

Sup. Ct. Fla.; and

Sup. Ct. Fla. Certio-rari denied. Reported below: No. 82-530, 667 F. 2d 1253; No. 82-5319, 635 S. W. 2d 498; No. 82-5519, 415 So. 2d 6; No. 82-5534, 415 So. 2d 719.

Dissenting Opinion

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Adhering 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.

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