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Thomas v. Arn

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
474 U.S. 140
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
499 of 499
Citing cases (total)
28,673
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Thomas v. Arn is good law among the reviewed cases: all 499 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. The reviewed opinions applied Arn's rule allowing appellate waiver for failure to object to a magistrate judge's report or applied Arn's own nonjurisdictional, discretionary-review exceptions.
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Nearby adverse terms concerned disposition of objections, statutory changes to objection periods, or treatment of unrelated precedents; some opinions did not discuss Arn.

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.

28,673 later cases cite Thomas v. Arn; 499 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 499 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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