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Tennard v. Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
542 U.S. 274
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
127 of 127
Citing cases (total)
1,965
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Tennard v. Dretke remains good law: all 127 flagged citations were read, and none adversely treated the decision. The opinions instead followed or applied Tennard, rejected parties' adverse characterizations, or reported Tennard's own treatment of older precedent—most often its rejection of the Fifth Circuit's former constitutional-relevance test and its abrogation of Smith v. Cockrell on other grounds.
More on how this was screened

Two retrieved opinions cited a different Dretke decision without mentioning Tennard. Duplicate flagged citations for Nelson v. Quarterman and Smith v. Quarterman were counted separately after each full 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.

1,965 later cases cite Tennard v. Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division; 127 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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Every one of the 127 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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