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Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Doughton

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
272 U.S. 567
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
5 of 5
Citing cases (total)
5
Treatment dates
1942
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Doughton was expressly overruled. Graves v. Schmidlapp held that a state may tax a resident's exercise of a testamentary power of appointment over property held in another state.
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5 later cases cite Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Doughton; 5 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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Treatments

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court overruled Wachovia's bar on taxing a resident's exercise of a testamentary power over an out-of-state trust.

    Graves v. Schmidlapp · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Wachovia Trust Co. v. Doughton, supra, on which respondents rely, denied the constitutional power of a state to tax the effective exercise of a testamentary power in circumstances like the present. ... The Wachovia case should be and now is overruled and the constitutional power of New York to levy the present tax is sustained.
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