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Jimmie Lee Branch v. Charles Ray Cole

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Good law
Court
Fifth Circuit
Citation
686 F.2d 264
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
80 of 80
Citing cases (total)
222
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Jimmie Lee Branch v. Charles Ray Cole remains good law: all 80 flagged citations have been read, and no citing court adversely treated it. The opinions apply its exceptional-circumstances standard for appointing counsel in civil rights suits or its discussion of access to courts.
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The newly read Cano v. Bexar County Sheriff opinion applies Branch's factors; Nordgren v. Milliken cites it in support. Nearby abrogation and overruling parentheticals concern Whisenant v. Yuam and Robbins v. Maggio.

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.

222 later cases cite Jimmie Lee Branch v. Charles Ray Cole; 80 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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