¶1Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
¶2Denied.
106 S. Ct. 528
Sloan v. Hicks
Decided December 2, 1985
Cited together with Ford v. Wainwright · McSurely v. McClellan · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1985-12-02
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,209 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Lockhart v. Fretwell (1993), Rock v. Arkansas (1987)
1,105 federal appellate · 234 district · 257 state decisions — followed in 37 states
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