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Spencer v. Kemna

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
523 U.S. 1
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
212 of 212
Citing cases (total)
3,517
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Spencer v. Kemna remains good law: all 212 flagged citations were read, and none adversely treated the decision. The opinions instead followed or applied Spencer, reported Spencer's own effect on older precedent, or discussed its separate opinions about Heck v. Humphrey without disturbing the majority's mootness holding.
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Duplicate citations were counted separately after each citing opinion was read once.

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.

3,517 later cases cite Spencer v. Kemna; 212 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 212 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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