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Paul v. Davis

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
424 U.S. 693
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
118 of 118
Citing cases (total)
4,838
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Paul v. Davis is good law: all 118 flagged citations have been read, and none established adverse treatment of its reputation holding. Saenz v. Murphy listed Paul among several due process decisions but resolved an inmate's disciplinary claim under Wolff v. McDonnell; it did not restrict Paul's rule.
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Other citing opinions applied Paul's rule on reputational injury, reported another case's history, or directed nearby adverse language at a different issue.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

4,838 later cases cite Paul v. Davis; 118 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.

Every one of the 118 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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