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372 U.S. 522

83 S. Ct. 887

9 L. Ed. 2d 965

Docket No. 399.

Fields v. South Carolina

Supreme Court of the United States

March 18, 1963

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1963-03-18

Relies on Edwards v. South Carolina

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Vacated and remanded · 8–1 · Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1963-03-18

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1983 · most notably Carey v. General Electric Co. (1963), Anderson v. City of Albany (1963)

19 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions

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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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Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, Matthew J. Perry and Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., for petitioners.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen. of South Carolina, Everett N. Brandon, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Julian S. Wolfe, for respondent.

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

PER CURIAM.

¶1

The petition for writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment of the Supreme Court of South Carolina is vacated and the case is remanded for consideration in light of Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229, 83 S.Ct. 680.

¶2

Mr. Justice CLARK dissents for the reasons expressed in his dissenting opinion in Edwards v. South Carolina, supra.

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