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pro se complaint

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 404 U.S. 519 - Haines v. Kerner · 1972Most cited · 18,809 citing opinions

pro se complaints are held to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers

How often courts cite the case defining “pro se complaint”

19701980199020002010202020306.1k

Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “pro se complaint” — 18,757 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.