Mixon v. State of Ohio
Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.
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The Sixth Circuit rejected an argument that intervening Supreme Court authority had undermined Mixon and expressly reaffirmed it as binding precedent. The remaining signals arose from treatment language about other authorities, positive citations, duplicate copies of the same opinion, or two withdrawn panel versions. One Fifth Circuit opinion observed that Mixon announced a private right of action under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act without analysis but reached the same conclusion rather than rejecting or limiting Mixon.
459 later cases cite Mixon v. State of Ohio; 88 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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This page shows what later courts did to it. Ask about your specific facts and see whether it still carries your argument, with citations you can check.
No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.
Every one of the 88 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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