471 U.S. 147
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1985-05-13
Relies on Fugate v. New Mexico
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Affirmed · 4–4 · Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1985-05-13
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Ad-Hoc Committee of Baruch Black and Hispanic Alumni Association, United States v. Kehm (1986)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 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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See 471 U.S. 1112, 105 S.Ct. 2350.
On Writ of
Certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
PER CURIAM.
The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.
Justice POWELL took no part in the decision of this case.