393 U.S. 821 - Davis v. Mississippi

How this case has been cited

Cited by 58 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Boykin v. Alabama (1969), Frazier v. Cupp (1969)

26 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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.

Jack Greenberg, Michael Meltsner, Melvyn Zarr, Anthony G. Amsterdam and Jack Young, for petitioner.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, and G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

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Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Mississippi granted limited to the first question presented by the petition which reads as follows:

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'Whether the introduction into evidence at petitioner's criminal trial of his fingerprints, taken as a result of petitioner's illegal arrest, violated petitioner's rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?' Case transferred to the appellate docket and placed on the summary calendar.