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Baker v. McCollan

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
443 U.S. 137
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
224 of 224
Citing cases (total)
5,646
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Baker v. McCollan remains good law: all 224 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated it. The citing opinions applied Baker's valid-warrant and mistaken-identity rules, its distinction between federal constitutional violations and ordinary state torts, or its threshold inquiry into the right allegedly deprived.
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The Seventh Circuit expressly rejected an argument that Manuel v. City of Joliet overruled Baker and continued to apply Baker's due-process framework; the other nearby treatment language concerned different precedent or a party's objection or claim.

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.

5,646 later cases cite Baker v. McCollan; 224 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 224 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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