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Harlow v. Fitzgerald

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
457 U.S. 800
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
1,238 of 1,238
Citing cases (total)
22,647
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Harlow v. Fitzgerald remains good law on the opinions reviewed: all 1,238 flagged citations have been read, with no confirmed adverse treatment of its federal rule. Font v. Carr retained Texas’s state-law immunity standard instead of adopting Harlow’s federal standard, as the entry below explains.
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.

22,647 later cases cite Harlow v. Fitzgerald; 1,238 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 1,238 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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