472 U.S. 478
Supreme Court of the United States
June 17, 1985
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1985-06-17
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Affirmed · 4–4 · Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1985-06-17
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Townley Engineering & Manufacturing Co. (1988), United States v. Meyers (1996)
23 federal appellate · 15 district · 16 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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On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
PER CURIAM.
The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.
Justice POWELL took no part in the decision of this case.