· 11/5/1973
Wainwright v. Stone
Citations
- 414 U.S. 21
- 94 S. Ct. 190
- 38 L. Ed. 2d 179
- 1973 U.S. LEXIS 169
How courts have described this case
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- observing that the “judgment of federal courts as to the vagueness” of a statute “must be made in light” of prior judicial constructions of the statute
- \(W)e must take the statute as though it read precisely as the highest court of the state has interpreted it.\
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Judges: Per Curiam
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