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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Dennison

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
65 U.S. 66
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
15 of 15
Citing cases (total)
15
Treatment dates
1987
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Dennison was overruled by the Supreme Court. All 15 flagged citations have been read, and the 1 confirmed treatment is listed below.
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Puerto Rico v. Branstad rejected Dennison's holding that federal courts could not compel a state governor to perform the Extradition Clause duty.

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.

15 later cases cite Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Dennison; 15 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 Dennison's holding that federal courts could not compel a governor to perform the Extradition Clause duty.

    Puerto Rico v. Branstad · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Kentucky v. Dennison is the product of another time. The conception of the relation between the States and the Federal Government there announced is fundamentally incompatible with more than a century of constitutional development. Yet this decision has stood while the world of which it was a part has passed away. We conclude that it may stand no longer.
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