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403 U.S. 948

Funicello v. New Jersey

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 28, 1971

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1971-06-28

Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Jackson · Boulden v. Holman

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Decided 1971-06-28

How this case has been cited

Cited by 142 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2011 · most notably State v. Smith (1980), Corbitt v. New Jersey (1978)

4 federal appellate · 135 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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¶1Sup. Ct. N. J. Reported below: 52 N. J. 263, 245 A. 2d 181; and

¶2Super. Ct. N. C., Buncombe County. Reported below: See 269 N. C. 307, 152 S. E. 2d 453. Motions for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and certiorari granted. Judgments, insofar as they impose the death sentence, reversed and cases remanded for further proceedings. Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U. S. 510 (1968); Boulden vHolman, 394 U. S. 478(1969) ; Maxwell v. Bishop, 398 U. S. 262 (1970); and United States v. Jackson, 390 U. S. 570 (1968).

Mr. Justice Black dissents.
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