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522 U.S. 994

Vrettos v. Plainfield Post Office

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 1, 1997

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1997-12-01

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Decided 1997-12-01

How this case has been cited

Cited by 359 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Lilly v. Virginia (1999), Wesbrook v. State (2000)

46 federal appellate · 14 district · 189 state decisions — followed in 21 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. 3d Cir. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed informa pauperis denied. See this Court’s Rule 39.8. Petitioner is allowed until December 22, 1997, within which to' pay the docketing fee required by Rule 38(a) and to submit a petition in' compliance with Rule 33.1 of the Rules of this Court.

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