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Hyche v. Christensen

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Overruled in part
Court
Seventh Circuit
Citation
170 F.3d 769
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
50 of 50
Citing cases (total)
50
Treatment dates
2000
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Hyche v. Christensen was overruled in part on its distinction between subjective good faith and objective frivolousness. In Lee v. Clinton, the Seventh Circuit held that a frivolous appeal is not taken in good faith for purposes of proceeding in forma pauperis.
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Hyche's guidance on assessing an appeal from the ruling under review continued to be cited. All 50 flagged citations have been read; the confirmed treatment is listed below.

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.

50 later cases cite Hyche v. Christensen; 50 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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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Seventh Circuit overruled Hyche's rule that good faith requires a subjective inquiry distinct from whether an appeal is frivolous.

    Lee v. Clinton · Seventh Circuit · filed

    Because we are overruling so much of ... Hyche as is inconsistent with our interpretation of the statute
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