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355 U.S. 838

Allen v. Williamson

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 14, 1957

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1957-10-14

Relies on Inland Gas Corporation Kentucky Fuel Gas Corporation American Fuel Power Company

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Decided 1957-10-14

How this case has been cited

Cited by 390 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Townsend v. Sain (1963), Barefoot v. Estelle (1983)

177 federal appellate · 9 district · 111 state decisions — followed in 25 states

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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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