Fields v. South Carolina

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 21, 1963.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1963-10-21

Relies on Edwards v. South Carolina

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1963-10-21

How this case has been cited

Cited by 104 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Cox v. State of Louisiana (1965), Cox v. State of Louisiana (1965)

14 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions

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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ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

¶1Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, Matthew J. Perry and Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr. for petitioners.

¶2Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General of South Carolina, Everett N. Brandon, Assistant Attorney General, and Julian S. Wolfe for respondent.

¶3PER CURIAM.

¶4The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is reversed. Edwards v. South Carolina,372 U. S. 229.