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390 U.S. 746

88 S. Ct. 1443

20 L. Ed. 2d 276

Docket No. 386, Misc.

Sims v. Cohen

Supreme Court of the United States

October Term, 1967.

April 29, 1968

Supreme Court of the United States · decided April 29, 1968

Relies on Hopkins v. Cohen

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Reversed · 6–2 · Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided April 29, 1968

How this case has been cited

Cited by 73 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014 · most notably 109 N.J. Super. 22 - Clairol, Inc. v. Kingsley (1970), State v. Farrow (1972)

6 federal appellate · 1 district · 61 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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H. H. Gearinger, for petitioner.

Solicitor General Marshall, for respondent.

Israel Steingold, for the American Trial Lawyers Ass'n, amicus curiae.

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

PER CURIAM.

¶1

The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is reversed. Hopkins v. Cohen, 390 U.S. 530, 88 S.Ct. 1146, 20 L.Ed.2d 87.

¶2

THE CHIEF JUSTICE and Mr. Justice WHITE dissent for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice White in Hopkins v. Cohen, 390 U.S. 535, 88 S.Ct. 1149, 20 L.Ed.2d 91.

¶3

Mr. Justice MARSHALL took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.

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