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497 U.S. 1031

Lewis v. Adamson

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1990-06-28

Relies on Alabama v. Smith

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Decided 1990-06-28

How this case has been cited

Cited by 152 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Bracy v. Gramley (1997), 153 Ill. 2d 264 - People v. Flores (1992)

39 federal appellate · 3 district · 89 state decisions — followed in 14 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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¶1C. A. 9th Cir. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed informa pawperis granted. Certiorari denied. The Chief Justice, Justice White, and Justice Scalia would grant the petition for writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand the case for further consideration in light of Walton v. Arizona, ante, p. 639, Lewis v. Jeffers, ante, p. 764, and Alabama v. Smith, 490 U. S. 794 (1989).

Justice O’Connor and Justice Kennedy took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion and this petition.
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