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Bell v. Wolfish

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
441 U.S. 520
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
589 of 589
Citing cases (total)
11,421
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Bell v. Wolfish remains good law. All 589 flagged citations have been read, and no later opinion was found to criticize, limit, overrule, or otherwise reject Bell's due-process framework for pretrial detainees, its search-reasonableness principles, or its deference to institutional administrators.
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.

11,421 later cases cite Bell v. Wolfish; 589 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 589 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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