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474 U.S. 845

Zerman v. Melton

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 7, 1985

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1985-10-07

Relies on Zerman v. Jacobs · Zerman v. Melton · Zerman v. Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc

Cited together with Raphan v. United States · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1985-10-07

How this case has been cited

Cited by 1,916 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably California v. Greenwood (1988), Gomez v. United States (1989)

871 federal appellate · 108 district · 254 state decisions — followed in 38 states

1.2k019851990200020102020decided

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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