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502 U.S. 953

Sparks v. Downs

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 4, 1991

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1991-11-04

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Decided 1991-11-04

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Forest Conservation Council v. United States Forest Service (1995), State v. Johnson (2008)

12 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions

190199120002010decided

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. Ky. Certiorari denied. It is further ordered that a rule issue, returnable within 40 days, requiring petitioner to show cause why he should not be sanctioned in the amount of $1,000 for falsifying Exhibits 1 and 3 to his petition.

Justice Thomas took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition and this order.
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