¶1Appeal from County Ct. at Law No. 2, El Paso County. Motion of appellant for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Probable jurisdiction noted and case set for oral argument together with No. 77-1680, Michigan v. DeFillippo [certiorari granted, ante, p. 816].
439 U.S. 909
Brown v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 16, 1978
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1978-10-16
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Decided 1978-10-16
How this case has been cited
Cited by 861 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Payton v. New York (1980), Brown v. Texas (1979)
512 federal appellate · 28 district · 145 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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