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Davis v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated

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

Good law
Court
Eleventh Circuit
Citation
516 F.3d 955
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
123 of 123
Citing cases (total)
453
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Good law: all 123 flagged citations for Davis v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated have been read, and none produced a precedential adverse treatment. The reviewed opinions applied Davis's shotgun-pleading, fair-notice, employment-pleading, issue-preservation, and pattern-or-practice rules.
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Many copied a parenthetical saying Twombly or Iqbal abrogated Davis on other grounds, but source review does not confirm that history: Davis postdates and expressly applies Twombly, while Iqbal did not cite or displace Davis. One later district court expressly observed that the reported Twombly abrogation was chronologically and doctrinally unclear. A separate 2026 dissent cited Davis as contrary authority while criticizing its panel majority, but the court did not adversely treat Davis.

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.

453 later cases cite Davis v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated; 123 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 123 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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