On Writ of
Certiorari to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
PER CURIAM.
¶1
The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.
445 U.S. 39
Massachusetts v. Meehan
Supreme Court of the United States
February 26, 1980
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1980-02-26
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Petition denied / appeal dismissed · 9–0 · Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1980-02-26
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tavares (1982), State v. Kelekolio (1993)
88 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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