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485 U.S. 957

Penson v. Ohio

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 21, 1988

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1988-03-21

Relies on Morrison v. Olson

Cited together with United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Mabey v. Official Committee of Equity Security Holders · Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co.

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Decided 1988-03-21

How this case has been cited

Cited by 1,413 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. (1989), Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. (1989)

654 federal appellate · 96 district · 123 state decisions — followed in 28 states

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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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¶1Ct. App. Ohio, Montgomery County. [Certiorari granted, 484 U. S. 1059.] Motion for appointment of counsel granted, and it is ordered that Gregory L. Ayers, Esq., of Columbus, Ohio, be appointed to serve as counsel for petitioner in this case.

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