Adkins v. Children's Hospital of Columbia
Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.
Status
More on how this was screened
The 4 confirmed adverse treatments are listed below. Of the 74 flagged citations, 61 were read; the text of the other 13 could not be retrieved or did not contain the citation to Adkins, so they remain unread. Most other opinions merely report the West Coast Hotel history or discuss other precedents.
468 later cases cite Adkins v. Children's Hospital of Columbia; 74 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading; 61 of them have been read, and the text of 13 citing opinions could not be retrieved, so those remain unread. 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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Treatments
Overruled
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The Supreme Court expressly overruled Adkins's holding that minimum-wage legislation for women violates constitutional liberty of contract.
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish · Supreme Court of the United States · filed
Our conclusion is that the case of Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, supra, should be, and it is, overruled.
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Declined to follow
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The Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals chose the minimum-price rule supported by West Coast Hotel and Nebbia and expressly rejected Adkins's contrary majority reasoning.
Ex parte Herrin · Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals · filed
Our judgment is in accord with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in the West Coast Hotel Company Case and the Nebbia Case, and not with the majority opinion in the Adkins Case, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of California.
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Criticized
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The Supreme Court disapproved Adkins's liberty-of-contract approach while upholding Missouri's paid voting-leave law.
Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. v. Missouri · Supreme Court of the United States · filed
We could strike down this law only if we returned to the philosophy of the Lochner, Coppage, and Adkins cases.
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The Supreme Court of New Jersey described Adkins's minimum-wage holding as unfortunate.
New Jersey Restaurant Ass'n v. Holderman · Supreme Court of New Jersey · filed
The distinction was there drawn to escape the unfortunate holding in Adkins v. Children's Hospital of District of Columbia, 261 U. S. 525, 43 S. Ct. 394, 67 L. Ed. 785 (1923), that freedom of contract foreclosed legislative prescription of minimum wages for women and minors.
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