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Gordon v. Leeke

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

Good law
Court
Fourth Circuit
Citation
574 F.2d 1147
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
52 of 52
Citing cases (total)
52

Status

Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Gordon v. Leeke remains good law after all 52 flagged citations were read. No citing court adversely treated its guidance on construing pro se civil rights claims or assisting litigants with potentially meritorious claims.
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Later courts continued to apply its standards for liberal construction and appointment of counsel when a litigant cannot present a colorable claim.

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.

52 later cases cite Gordon v. Leeke; 52 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 52 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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