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Jeffrey S. v. State Board of Education of Georgia

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Good law
Court
Eleventh Circuit
Citation
896 F.2d 507
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
84 of 84
Citing cases (total)
255

Status

Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Jeffrey S. v. State Board of Education of Georgia is good law on this review: all 84 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated it. The citing opinions applied its standard for independent de novo review of objections to a magistrate judge's recommendation.
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Their nearby references to overruling concerned parties' objections; references to abrogation concerned other legal rules.

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.

255 later cases cite Jeffrey S. v. State Board of Education of Georgia; 84 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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