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Knox v. Lee

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Abrogated
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
79 U.S. 457
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
30 of 30
Citing cases (total)
30
Treatment dates
1922
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Knox v. Lee remains authoritative on Congress's power to make Treasury notes legal tender, but its statement that the Takings Clause reaches only direct appropriations was abrogated by Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon. The treatment is listed below.
More on how this was screened

All 30 flagged citations have been read. The Supreme Court later described the change in Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003, 1014–15 (1992), which cites the Legal Tender Cases' direct-appropriation language before explaining Mahon's recognition of regulatory takings.

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.

30 later cases cite Knox v. Lee; 30 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

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court displaced Knox's statement that the Takings Clause applies only to direct appropriations by holding that a regulation can also require compensation when it goes too far.

    Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    The general rule at least is, that.while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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