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Hepburn v. Griswold

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
75 U.S. 603
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
11 of 11
Citing cases (total)
11
Treatment dates
1871
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Hepburn v. Griswold was overruled: all 11 flagged citations have been read, with the 1 confirmed treatment listed below. Knox v. Lee overturned Hepburn's holding that Congress could not make United States notes legal tender for debts contracted before the Legal Tender Acts.
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Although Knox said it overruled “so much” of Hepburn as decided that issue, that was Hepburn's controlling constitutional holding. The Supreme Court later described Hepburn in Juilliard v. Greenman as “the earlier case of Hepburn v. Griswold, 8 Wall. 603, which those cases overruled.” The other opinions applied Hepburn while it stood or reported Knox's treatment without independently acting on it.

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.

11 later cases cite Hepburn v. Griswold; 11 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 Hepburn's holding that the Legal Tender Acts were unconstitutional when applied to contracts made before their enactment.

    Knox v. Lee · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    But, without extending our remarks further, it will be seen that we hold the acts of Congress .constitutional as applied to contracts tnade either before or after their passage. In so holding, Ave overrule so much of Avhat was decided in Hepburn v. Griswold,* as ruled the acts unwarranted by the Constitution so far as they apply to contracts made before their enactment.
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