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Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co.

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
491 U.S. 1
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
305 of 305
Citing cases (total)
593
Treatment dates
1996
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co. is overruled among the reviewed cases: all 305 flagged citations have been read, with the 1 confirmed treatment listed below. Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida expressly overruled Union Gas's holding that Congress may use its Article I powers to abrogate States' sovereign immunity.
More on how this was screened

Earlier reviewed opinions applied Union Gas; later opinions overwhelmingly reported Seminole Tribe's act as history rather than independently treating Union Gas.

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.

593 later cases cite Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co.; 305 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 Court overruled Union Gas's holding that Congress may use its Article I Commerce Clause powers to abrogate States' Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity.

    Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    We feel bound to conclude that Union Gas was wrongly decided and that it should be, and now is, overruled.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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