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House v. Bell

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
547 U.S. 518
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
72 of 72
Citing cases (total)
2,345
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Good law: all 72 flagged citations have been read, and no adverse treatment of House v. Bell was confirmed. The Fifth Circuit applied House's express decision to leave open whether a freestanding actual innocence claim is cognizable and resolved that question under its existing precedent.
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Later citing courts continued to apply House's actual innocence gateway standard.

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.

2,345 later cases cite House v. Bell; 72 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 72 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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