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Mullenix v. Luna

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
577 U.S. 7
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
178 of 178
Citing cases (total)
3,426

Status

Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Mullenix v. Luna is good law: all 178 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. The citing opinions predominantly applied Mullenix's requirement that clearly established law be framed in the specific factual context or reported the Supreme Court's use of that rule to reverse lower-court qualified-immunity decisions.
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Other nearby treatment words concerned unrelated authorities, and one citation appeared only in a dissent. The original and amended Ninth Circuit opinions in Hughes v. Kisela lack precedential force: the original was superseded, and the Supreme Court later reversed the amended judgment while applying Mullenix positively. Another citing opinion was withdrawn and replaced by amended orders.

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.

3,426 later cases cite Mullenix v. Luna; 178 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 178 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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