Green v. Virginia

Supreme Court of the United States

June 22, 1964

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1964-06-22

Relies on Peterson v. City of Greenville · Robinson v. Florida · Avent v. State of North Carolina

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Vacated and remanded · 8–1 · Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1964-06-22

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Cited by 58 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably United States v. Ventresca (1965), Ginzburg v. United States (1966)

16 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions

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Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III and Roland D. Ealey, for petitioners.

Reno S. Harp III, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia, for respondent.

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

PER CURIAM.

¶1

The petition for writ of certiorari is granted, the judgments are vacated and the case remanded to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia for consideration in light of Peterson v. City of Greenville, 373 U.S. 244, 83 S.Ct. 1119, 10 L.Ed.2d 323, and Robinson v. Florida, 378 U.S. 153, 84 S.Ct. 1693.

¶2

Mr. Justice DOUGLAS would reverse outright on the basis of the views expressed in his opinion in Bell v. Maryland, 378 U.S. 242, 84 S.Ct. 1823.