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Ernest D. Johnson v. Brian Breeden

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Good law
Court
Eleventh Circuit
Citation
280 F.3d 1308
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
35 of 35

Status

Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Ernest D. Johnson v. Brian Breeden remains good law on the issues reviewed. All 35 flagged citations have been read, and none establishes an adverse treatment of Johnson's Eighth Amendment holding or its punitive damages analysis.
More on how this was screened

Wilkins v. Gaddy rejected an injury threshold that Johnson never imposed. Patel v. Smith retained Johnson's qualified immunity rule for Eighth Amendment claims while abandoning its later extension to pretrial detainee claims.

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.

35 citations to Ernest D. Johnson v. Brian Breeden 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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Every one of the 35 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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