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Allen v. McCurry

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
449 U.S. 90
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
190 of 190
Citing cases (total)
4,908
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Allen v. McCurry is good law: all 190 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. Later courts continued to apply Allen's rule that qualifying state court judgments can preclude later federal civil rights claims.
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When courts refused preclusion, they applied the rule's own requirements, including a full and fair opportunity to litigate. Other flagged opinions discussed different cases or contained no citation to Allen.

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.

4,908 later cases cite Allen v. McCurry; 190 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 190 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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