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Clark v. Barnard

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

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
108 U.S. 436
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
89 of 89
Citing cases (total)
622

Status

Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Clark v. Barnard is good law in this review. All 89 flagged citations have been read, and none produced confirmed adverse treatment of the Court's holding that Rhode Island waived Eleventh Amendment immunity by voluntarily intervening to claim a federal court fund.
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The reviewed opinions applied that rule, discussed other immunity questions, reported another court's action, or placed an adverse word near a citation without acting on Clark. The flagged citation in Empress Casino Joliet Corp. v. Blagojevich led to a complete opinion that does not cite Clark; its abrogation discussion concerned legislative immunity, so it produced no treatment entry.

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.

622 later cases cite Clark v. Barnard; 89 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 89 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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