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Weller v. Department of Social Services for the City of Baltimore

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

Good law
Court
Fourth Circuit
Citation
901 F.2d 387
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
68 of 68
Citing cases (total)
68
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Weller v. Department of Social Services for the City of Baltimore remains good law: all 68 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. Later courts applied Weller's rules on parental custody hearings, pro se pleading, procedural due process, and sovereign immunity.
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Most recent opinions cited its express limit on liberal construction of pro se pleadings; their nearby overruling language concerned litigants' objections or other authorities, rather than Weller.

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.

68 later cases cite Weller v. Department of Social Services for the City of Baltimore; 68 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 68 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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