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Hodges v. United States

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
203 U.S. 1
Decided
Confirmed treatments
2
Flagged citations read
23 of 23
Citing cases (total)
23
Treatment dates
1968–1976
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Hodges v. United States was overruled in part: all twenty-three flagged citations have been read, with the two confirmed treatments listed below. The Constitution Annotated lists Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. as overruling Hodges.
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Jones expressly displaced Hodges insofar as its narrow account of Congress's Thirteenth Amendment power conflicted with the Court's authority to prohibit private racial discrimination in property rights. Later courts still cite Hodges's separate statement that the Amendment protects people of every race.

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.

23 later cases cite Hodges v. United States; 23 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 in part

  • The Supreme Court overruled Hodges insofar as its narrow view of Congress's Thirteenth Amendment power conflicted with the power to prohibit private racial discrimination in property rights.

    Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Insofar as Hodges is inconsistent with our holding today, it is hereby overruled.
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Criticized

  • The district court condemned Hodges for reducing the effect of the Thirteenth Amendment and its implementing laws.

    Spiess v. C. Itoh & Co. (America), Inc. · S.D. Tex. · filed

    Hodges v. United States: Death Blow to the Amendment and the Act ... After 40 years, the Supreme Court culminated its evaluation of the legislation of that period by reducing the effect of the Thirteenth Amendment and its legislative offspring to a nullity.
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