¶1Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
¶2Granted.
105 S. Ct. 321
Decided October 29, 1984
Cited together with Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · Gemelli v. Pennsylvania · Strickland v. Washington
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1984-10-29
Cited by 1,773 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Mitchell v. Forsyth (1985), Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (1985)
786 federal appellate · 94 district · 471 state decisions — followed in 38 states
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