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Geer v. Connecticut

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
161 U.S. 519
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
32 of 32
Citing cases (total)
32
Treatment dates
1979
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Geer v. Connecticut was overruled by the Supreme Court in Hughes v. Oklahoma. All 32 flagged citations have been read.
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Hughes rejected Geer's rule that state ownership of wildlife permits a state to bar its interstate shipment, while preserving state authority to conserve wildlife through measures consistent with the Commerce Clause. Later opinions reporting that overruling add no separate treatment.

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.

32 later cases cite Geer v. Connecticut; 32 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 expressly overruled Geer's Commerce Clause holding that state ownership of wildlife allowed a ban on interstate shipment of lawfully taken game.

    Hughes v. Oklahoma · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    We noted probable jurisdiction, 439 U. S. 815 (1978). We reverse. Geer v. Connecticut, 161 U. S. 519 (1896), on which the Court of Criminal Appeals relied, is overruled.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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