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390 U.S. 1001

Witherspoon v. Illinois

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1968-04-01

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Decided 1968-04-01

How this case has been cited

Cited by 473 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations (1974), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Stevic (1984)

263 federal appellate · 17 district · 112 state decisions — followed in 29 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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¶1Sup. Ct. Ill.; and

¶2Sup. Ct. N. C. Motions of Oscar Turner, Rebecca B. Madden, and American Friends Service Committee et al. for leave to file briefs, as amici curiae, in No. 1015, granted. Motion of NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., et al., for leave to file brief, as amici curiae, in both cases, granted.

¶3[For earlier orders herein, see, e. g., ante, p. 986.]

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