Jefferson v. Hackney

Supreme Court of the United States

May 4, 1970

Supreme Court of the United States · decided May 4, 1970

Relies on Rosado v. Wyman · Bell Lines, Inc. v. United States

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Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided May 4, 1970

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Jefferson v. Hackney (1972), Nolan v. United States (1969)

6 federal appellate · 9 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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Ed J. Polk and Carl Rachlin, for appellants.

Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Nola White, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Pat Bailey, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., and W. O. Shultz II, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

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The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The judgment is vacated and the case is remanded to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas for further consideration in light of Rosado v. Wyman, 397 U.S. 397, 90 S.Ct. 1207, 25 L.Ed.2d 442.