Beer Co. v. Massachusetts
Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.
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The Supreme Court held that a corporate charter did not prevent Massachusetts from later prohibiting liquor sales under its police power, while reserving the question of compensation for existing vested property. Later opinions applied that holding or cited the State's continuing authority to protect public health and safety.
22 later cases cite Beer Co. v. Massachusetts; 22 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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This page shows what later courts did to it. Ask about your specific facts and see whether it still carries your argument, with citations you can check.
No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.
Every one of the 22 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.
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