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Leer v. Murphy

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Good law
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
844 F.2d 628
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
85 of 85
Citing cases (total)
85
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Leer v. Murphy remains good law: all 85 flagged citations have been read, and no adverse treatment was confirmed. Later courts applied its requirement that damages claims against prison officials establish each defendant's own conduct and causal role.
More on how this was screened

The nearby language about overruling or abrogation addressed other decisions, most often Parratt v. Taylor or Redman v. County of San Diego. CourtListener's long caption lists both prisoner plaintiffs and several prison officials; the commonly cited case name is Leer v. Murphy. Full texts for citing opinions 206083 and 617906 were read through legalresearch after passage extraction omitted them; both apply Leer. All retrieved opinions were readable, including the short Glenn v. Berndt opinion.

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.

85 later cases cite Leer v. Murphy; 85 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 85 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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