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401 U.S. 1007

Somerville v. Illinois

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1971-04-05

Relies on United States v. Jorn · Downum v. United States

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1971-04-05

How this case has been cited

Cited by 499 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Warth v. Seldin (1975), Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. (1977)

264 federal appellate · 28 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 13 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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