West v. Carr

Supreme Court of the United States

June 22, 1964

Supreme Court of the United States · decided June 22, 1964

Relies on Lucas v. Adams

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Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided June 22, 1964

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1992 · most notably Scott v. Germano (1965), Ripon Society, Inc. v. National Republican Party (1975)

10 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 states

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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Appeal from the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Middle Division.

Harris A. Gilbert, for appellants.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen. of Tennessee, and Thomas E. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

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The motion to dismiss is granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, certiorari is denied.