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Torrance Pilgrim v. John Littlefield

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Good law
Court
Sixth Circuit
Citation
92 F.3d 413
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
112 of 112
Citing cases (total)
956
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Torrance Pilgrim v. John Littlefield remains good law: all 112 flagged citations have been read, and none shows adverse treatment by a citing court. The reviewed opinions consistently applied Pilgrim's holdings that pro se leniency has limits, basic pleading and procedural requirements still govern pro se litigants, and an access-to-courts claim requires concrete litigation-related injury.
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Most nearby “abrogated” language said that liberal construction does not abrogate basic pleading requirements or concerned sovereign immunity; nearby “overruled” language concerned objections in the citing case or the later history of other precedents.

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.

956 later cases cite Torrance Pilgrim v. John Littlefield; 112 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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