Brown v. Thomson

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 24, 1978

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1978-03-24

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Decided 1978-03-24

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably 22 Cal. 3d 792 - Fox v. City of Los Angeles (1978), 481 F. Supp. 1315 - Shakman v. Democratic Organization of Cook Cty. (1979)

24 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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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¶1Application for stay of judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, presented to Mr. Justice Brennan, and by him referred to the Court, granted pending timely filing and disposition of a petition for writ of certiorari in this Court.

¶2Should the petition for a writ of certiorari not be timely filed or denied, this stay is to terminate automatically. In the event the petition for a writ of certiorari is granted, this stay is to remain in effect pending issuance of the judgment of this Court.