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Jane Doe, Individually and as Next Friend of John Doe, a Minor v. Martha Cassel Angel Cooper Skye Howard Randall Majors Jeff Frick Monica Smith

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Good law
Court
Eighth Circuit
Citation
403 F.3d 986
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
93 of 93
Citing cases (total)
208
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Jane Doe, Individually and as Next Friend of John Doe, a Minor v. Martha Cassel Angel Cooper Skye Howard Randall Majors Jeff Frick Monica Smith remains good law after all 93 flagged citations were read; none adversely treated it. The citing opinions overwhelmingly report Doe as the decision that abrogated Edgington v. Missouri Department of Corrections's heightened-pleading rule on other grounds while continuing to apply Edgington's surviving appointment-of-counsel factors.
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In two duplicate pairs of Baker v. Chisom opinions, the Eighth Circuit rejected the argument that Doe had implicitly overruled the separate clear-statement rule for pleading individual capacity. Larson v. Lake applied Doe's leave-to-amend standard; its disagreement was with the defendants' argument. No opinion criticized, confined, displaced, or otherwise adversely treated Doe itself.

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.

208 later cases cite Jane Doe, Individually and as Next Friend of John Doe, a Minor v. Martha Cassel Angel Cooper Skye Howard Randall Majors Jeff Frick Monica Smith; 93 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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