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· 12/18/1972

John William Smith v. Howard Yeager, Warden, New Jersey State Prison

Citations

  • 465 F.2d 272

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting it would be “absurd” to employ comparative analysis where the Black population is only 4.4 percent
  • striking down system that permitted “tainted subjective decision[s]”
  • striking down system that permitted \tainted subjective decision[s]\

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Judges: Kalodner, Hastie, Rosenn

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