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Sidney A. Sparks, R. L. Lynd, D/B/A Sidney A. Sparks, Trustee v. Duval County Ranch Company, Inc.

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

Good law
Court
Fifth Circuit
Citation
604 F.2d 976
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
48 of 48
Citing cases (total)
48
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Sparks v. Duval County Ranch Company remains good law after all 48 flagged citations were read. None shows a court adversely treating its holding that judicial immunity does not protect private parties who conspire with a judge under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
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Most apparent overruling references report that Sparks itself overruled earlier derivative-immunity decisions; other opinions apply Sparks or cite it in a dissent.

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.

48 later cases cite Sidney A. Sparks, R. L. Lynd, D/B/A Sidney A. Sparks, Trustee v. Duval County Ranch Company, Inc.; 48 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 48 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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